6/20/2023 0 Comments The mars room book review![]() ![]() The Mars Room is a powerful indictment of the penal system as seen through a 29-year-old single mother who has been convicted of murder. The failure to report a rule violation of a failure to report a rule violation is another rule violation. The failure to report a rule violation … is also a rule violation. Wouldn’t it just have been simpler to tell these inmates what they could wear? There are lists of rules scattered through the book Kushner displays an impressive knowledge of life inside a women’s correctional facility in California the strip-searches, shacklings and lock downs and the rules that govern every moment and every aspect of the women’s lives. ![]() The secret is that “… you got to double decant it …. ![]() ![]() I’ll know how to send and receive contraband through the air vents and toilet system (making sure of course to wrap everything tightly in plastic).Īnd, to make up for the absence of real alcohol, I will be able to brew hooch from ketchup sachets, fruit juice cartons and a sock stuffed with bread (necessary to create the yeast) even if the result does look and smell like vomit. I will know for example that it’s possible to smuggle pills by using peanut butter to attach them to the roof of your mouth. Should I be so unfortunate to find myself detained in one of Her Majesty’s prisons, I will at least, thanks to Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room, have several survival strategies at my fingertips. ![]()
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