The Mars Room

BY RACHEL KUSHNER

Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.

Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.

This is a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda,

No. 2 Samudradevi Mawatha