The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner: Conversation Starters From Rachel Kushner, bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, comes another compelling novel The Mars Room. Kushner tells the story of Romy Hall as she begins her life sentences at California''s Stanville Women''s Correctional Facility. She was severed from her young son Jackson to be penalized with her second life sentence. Her new home is now with thousands of women prisoners hustling to survive with bare essentials and violence. The Wall Street Journal describes Kushner''s novel "tough, prismatic and quite gripping." Joshua Ferris calls The Mars Room "an addictive novel, laced throughout with a bracing intelligence." For Entertainment Weekly, The Mars Room is "a probing portrait of contemporary America." A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to... Create Hours of Conversation: . Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups . Foster a deeper understanding of the book . Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately . Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource meant to supplement the original book. If you have not yet read the original book, we encourage you to before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters.