Paperback, 352 pages
Published March 21, 2018 by Scribner.
From the Publisher:
It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision.
An impressive novel, I almost read it in one go.
Es fing vielversprechend an und ich mochte es stilistisch. Dann wurde zwar viel und schön erzählt, aber eine Handlung konnte ich nicht erkennen und mein Interesse erlahmte noch im ersten Drittel. Nur weil sich eine schwache Hoffnung auf Gefängnisausbruch einstellte, hab ich es doch zu Ende gelesen, aber naja.
