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Book Review of Room

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


This incredible book describing the lives of a mother and son living in a "room" left me intensely thinking about the joys of living in our world. The impact of a mother's love for her child was expertly described in this book, as was the horror of the child's first 5 years of life. But the horror was unknown to the child and this, I believe, was the true value of the book. It made you understand that the "unknown" can give true meaning to the saying "what you don't have, you don't miss."