TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE ENTIRE YEAR • NY TIMES NOTABLE Publication OF 2018

FINALIST for the person BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL Reserve CRITICS CIRCLE Prize

LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

An instant New York Occasions bestseller from two-time Country wide Reserve Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Space earned tweets from Margaret Atwood-“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no glucose toppings, and lots of punches, none of them pulled”-and from Stephen King-“The Mars Area is the real deal, about The Mars Space: A Book jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.”

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named following a German celebrity, is at the beginning of two consecutive existence phrases at Stanville Women’s Correctional Service, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outdoors is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, as well as the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA of her youngsters. Inside is a fresh reality: a large number of females hustling for the bare essentials had a need to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners as well; as well as the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great laughter and precision.

Amazing and unsentimental, The Mars Space is “wholly genuine…serious…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one particular books that enrage you even while they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)-a spectacularly powerful, heart-stopping novel in regards to a lifestyle gone from the rails in contemporary America. It really is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet wonderfully processed and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Regular).