![]() Jack’s lack of understanding about his and his mother’s situation gives us an incredibly restrained narration of highly charged events, and this restraint ultimately heightens our emotional reaction to the story. What makes Room work is Donoghue’s choice of using a five year old’s perspective. ![]() It’s a plot straight from the headlines, and the book could so easily have devolved into a tabloid article or a melodramatic soap opera. Room tells the story of Jack, a five year old boy who’s grown up his entire life in a small room with his mother, a 27 year old woman abducted by a man Jack calls Old Nick seven years ago. Nominated for the Booker, super hyped in Chapters and the media, Room is a novel I approached with caution, afraid all the hype was due to Harper Collins’ incredible marketing and that the book would disappoint me. ![]() ![]() Little late to the party, but I finally got around to reading Emma Donoghue’s Room. ![]()
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