Room

Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue. Room is five-year-old Jack's entire world. It's where he was born and where he has grown up. It's also his mother's prison, a small cubicle where she has been kept prisoner by Old Nick, the man who abducted her -- and who fathered Jack. Told in Jack's voice, "Room" is the story of their life together in the small outbuilding, and later of their escape and introduction back into the outside world. It's wonderfully evocative and a beautiful little universe all unto itself. In its own confined way, it's a perfect little book. Grade: A