SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers – a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.

Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional FacilityHer crime? The killing of her stalker.

Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.

As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line – until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.

''Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers'' STYLIST

''More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful'' NEW YORK TIMES

''Breathtaking'' VOGUE



Format Häftad Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2019-03-07 ISBN 9780099589969