Amazing. Profoundly disturbing but heart warming too.
Amazon.com gives a synopsis:
In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time. --Lynette Mong
This book is for you if enjoy reading about relationships, dealing with change, dealing with life, and finding normality.
This book is not for you if you can't handle reading anything explicit, anything discussing rape or kidnapping, anything foreign, anything extremely informal, or anything PHENOMENAL.
Even cooler? The author set up a website where you can actually see what "Room" looks like, something I'd wondered throughout the entire novel.
Of her novel, Donoghue writes:
Room is a book about the smallest of worlds, and the biggest. Small ones (such as couples, families, workplaces) have their pleasures as well as their irritations; big ones (cities, nations, the Internet) both attract and alienate. Some days we all feel trapped in our particular life circumstances, and other days we find there is more freedom inside their limits, and room inside our heads, than we ever knew.
Go buy it, rent it, find it; just read it.
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