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A brutal unforgiving and often grimly funny tour de force of wasted lives the mars room makes most other contemporary fiction seem timid and predictable. The mars room. See featured authors answering questions. The mars room teems with quick and distinctive voices.

Rachel kushner is the only writer to ever be nominated for a national book award in fiction for both a first and second novel. You can pose questions to the goodreads community with reader q a or ask your favorite author a question with ask the author. The mars room is a provocative raveworthy exploration of choices or indeed the absence of any perceived choice for adolescent and teen female criminals on the lower echelon of the socio economic scale who grow up sexually abused addicted to street drugs and or engaged in a sex related trade because they ve had no choice in where how and by. In doing so it reminds us that fiction that startles and abrades is as necessary or even more necessary than fiction.

My year of rest and re. She began her bachelor s in political economy at the university of california berkeley when she was only sixteen and went on to obtain an mfa in creative writing from columbia university. An exhilarating always surprising read. From twice national book award nominated rachel kushner comes a spectacularly compelling heart stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary america.

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Max liu financial times one of the greatest novels i have read in years. With the mars room rachel kushner cements her place as the most vital and interesting american novelist working today. Editions for the mars room. Find books like the mars room from the world s largest community of readers.

Her prior novel the flamethrowers was expansive and thrilling but this is richer and deeper more ambitious in its moral vision. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life was going to change it and every day the lament became merel.