Room by Emma Donoghue

Post date: Jun 23, 2011 4:52:29 PM

Imagine you are five years old and have lived your whole life with your mother in one room. You believe everything on television is make believe. How would you react to the real world the first time you are able to leave that room? Would you be able to adjust to this new world? Jack and his mother have lived in one room for five years. Room is his entire world. Then one day Jack's mom turns his world upside down when she tells him the truth about the world. This is a story of Jack's introduction to freedom and this new world and his mothers re-introduction to a world that is not the same as it was five years earlier. Room is one of the books on the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist for 2010.