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Book Review of Room

Room
Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1


5-year old Jack is the narrator of this startling novel. His mother was kidnapped six years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, and taken to a converted, sound-proof shed in the kidnapper's yard. Their captor visits at night when Jack is asleep. Seeing their life together through the eyes and ears of a young child is an ingenious device that makes it all the more harrowing.