![]() ![]() ![]() We must remember: before her imprisonment, Romy had grown up in the Sunset district of San Francisco with her divorced mother, who was addicted to painkillers. It is neither a tidy denouement nor an unbelievable resolution. It feels somewhat apt to argue that everything in the novel leads unsurprisingly to the story’s end. The opening of the novel takes us into Stanville prison, where the protagonist, 29-year-old Romy Leslie Hall, must serve two consecutive life sentences, plus an additional six years, for murdering her stalker, who frequented the strip club where she worked as a dancer, and the end of the novel follows Romy’s escape from the correctional facility after she has exhausted all of her options to protect her young son, Jackson, who’s become a ward of the state after the death of Romy’s mother, his caretaker. ![]() Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room-which Alta Journal’s California Book Club will discuss at its May 20 gathering-begins and ends with seemingly quiet departures. ![]()
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