![]() ![]() Her arrest leaves her five-year-old son in the precarious custody of her mother, whom Romy detests. When a Mars Room regular starts stalking her, Romy kills him in what the courts deem a murder rather than self-defense. ![]() ![]() Romy - who spent her neglected San Francisco adolescence drinking, stealing, and getting high - grew up to make her living as a stripper at a seedy club that gives the book its title. In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Rachel Kushner ’01SOA said that most incarcerated men and women she has known “go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.” Her third novel, The Mars Room, offers a crushing account of one such ordinary life on the margins.Īt twenty-nine, Romy Hall is serving two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility in California. ![]()
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