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July 20, 2011 Hosted by: Kristina Yoder Book: Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue



Synopsis: In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's //Room// is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter //Room// will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.

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From School: Take 56 (the street with all the fast food restaurants)

At Light, go straight

At stop sign turn right on Main Street

At light (Brassfield Church Rd), church on one corner, bank on the other, turn left

Turn right onto Lawerence Rd.

At stop sign at the end of Lawrence go right.

Turn left onto Lake Ridge Dr.

My house is the second house on the right. 1086 Lake Ridge Drive

Creedmoor, NC 27522

Phone #: (419)601-3237

Let me know if you are coming some other way and these directions won't work for you. This is the best way I know!

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