ROOM by Emma Donahue

"In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time. --Lynette Mong"


This book was incredible!  One of those that hooks you in and, unless you can read it from cover to cover in one sitting, it haunts you every time you step away.  Honestly, this book will haunt you anyway.  I was amazed that the author could tell such a chilling story all from the perspective of five year old Jack.  It is from our adult life experience that we can fill in the gaps that round out this nightmare.  The story, however chilling and sad, is truly about survival and true motherhood.  Jack's mother is the definition of Mother..... tough, inventive, creative, patient, protective, sacrificial, human....  this novel is definitley worth the read.