He doesn’t even realize there is a world outside of it – the things he sees on TV, he believes are made up. Jack has never once been outside of Room, the eleven square foot shed he and his mother live in.
She has a five year old son (the child of her abductor, of course) and the whole book is told through the little boy, Jack’s, eyes. The premise sounds so awful – it’s about a woman who has been kept in a shed-turned-prison for the last seven years after being abducted. I never would have picked it up if Julie hadn’t so convincingly sold me on it. You may have heard about this book – it’s been wildly popular with all the big review sources, has been a major bestseller, and was on the New York Times list of the 10 Best Books of 2010. Room by Emma Donoghue, told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy living in captivity with his mother, blew me away. 9 of 10: When I wasn’t reading this book, I was thinking about it.
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