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Amy Lafleur Meyers
Jack has only grown up in the Room. He is five and it is the only home he has known. Ma, however, remembers the world outside, a world in which she lived before Old Nick took her and locked her up in Room. Ma has lived in Room for seven years, yearning for and planning her escape. The subject matter of an abducted and imprisoned young woman is intense and it makes it even eerier as the story is told from Jack's perspective. Donoghue captures the naïveté and voice of a child and uses it to write ...more
Cathy
Mar 24, 2011 marked it as recommended-reading-by-friends
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I am so trying to read this. I think I may be slightly masochistic.
Stephanie
May 26, 2010 marked it as to-read
diane
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Sigriet Ferrer
Apr 06, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Melissa
Mar 18, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Kate
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Robin Benoit
Jan 31, 2016 marked it as to-read
Colleen
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Becky
Nov 21, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Sarah Bowers
Dec 01, 2017 rated it really liked it
Grace
Jan 08, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition