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I just started Emma Donoghue’s Room today, but I am already entranced by it. I love little Jack’s voice and the courage of his mother. A very difficult topic handled in a surprisingly charming way.
âWell, I couldnât draw you while you were awake, or it wouldnât be a surprise, would it?â Ma waits. âI thought youâd like a surprise.â
âI prefer a surprise and me knowing.â
Emma Donoghue, Room
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. Itâs where he was born. Itâs where he and Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jackâs imagination: the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells; the imaginary world projected through the TV; the coziness of Wardrobe, where Ma tucks him in safely at night, in case Old Nick comes.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, itâs the prison where sheâs been held since she was nineteenâfor seven long years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jackâs curiosity is building alongside Maâs own desperation, and she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely.
Told in the inventive, funny and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilienceâand a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.
