![]() ![]() She made it a choice to not explain their situation to Jack. ![]() “Ma”, as Jack calls her mom (readers will never know her real name), spent the last five years taking care of his son in their tiny room while at the same time preserving her own sanity. She bore him seven children (and one miscarriage) who were also kept imprisoned until their rescue. The book was inspired by the horrifying real-life case of Elisabeth Fritzl from Austria, a woman who was kept imprisoned by her incestuous father, Josef Fritzl, in a soundproof dungeon in his basement for 24 years. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize that same year. ![]() After it’s release it went on to become a New York Times bestseller for Fiction and eventually made it to the newspaper’s 2010 Best Books of the Year list. Raped repeatedly since her abduction by a man they only call as Old Nick, she bore a child who is now 5 years old and she named him Jack. Written by Irish-born Canadian writer Emma Donoghue, Room is about a young woman, kidnapped when she was 19 years old and was made to stay in a 12-foot square reinforced shed for seven years. Well that is an understatement considering how many times I have to stop and feel a lot of the book’s emotionally moving sentences. Living so much to it’s hype, I enjoyed this book so much. ![]()
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