Room By Emma Donoghue. Room by emma donoghue. Most people who review the book seem to love it.
An ebullient child narrator held captive with his mother in an 11 by 11 foot room through whom we encounter the blurry often complicated space between closeness and autonomy. Went into this having read no reviews or seen the film and really not knowing a thing about it. They talk about how riveting and suspenseful the book is and how they felt compelled to finish it in a single reading.
An ebullient child narrator held captive with his mother in an 11 by 11 foot room through whom we encounter the blurry often complicated space between closeness and autonomy.
Donoghue has created one of the pure triumphs of recent fiction. As jack and ma celebrate his birthday by reminiscing about the day of his birth baking a cake playing games and watching tv it becomes clear that jack and ma are captives of a. Room by emma donoghue. The narrator s voice is that of the five year old.