338 pages
English language
Published May 1, 2018 by Scribner.
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed, the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality, thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.
The book was a nice change from the books I normally read, it had the real point of view of an American prisoner. The story jumped around a lot and many times I either had to go back and reread something or I would have to think about what happened last night I read about those people. The story does go into details which allows you to paint a picture in your head.
