Emma Donoghue ~ Room

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room, and the outside world.

It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five.

Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma, and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside....

Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other.

While this book has been given a great rap, this audio version is hard to take. I couldn't get through the book because of the extremely annoying voice and baby language of the narrator. I want to read the rest