![]() ![]() ![]() The women’s perspectives ( Romy and Fernandez) are told in first person, while all of the male perspectives are in a close third. Gordon uses his own money to purchase Amazon books for Romy, as she tries to use her charms on Gordon to help locate her son.Īlthough Romy and Gordon are the primary perspectives in The Mars Room, we also hear the narratives of Doc, a former bad cop who is behind bars, Fernandez, Romy’s prison roommate, and Kurt Kennedy, Romy’s stalker. Gordon is fascinated by the beautiful Romy, even more so, when she reveals that she is educated. She discovers a soft touch in Gordon Hauser, who has accepted a teaching job at the facility. Other prisoners at California’s Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility teach Romy to take advantage of weak men through penpal connections or even through men working at the prison. ![]() Romy quickly learns that she must adjust to her new reality behind bars, which also means trying to let go of things that she cannot control, including her young son ending up in the foster care system. Romy is bereft at losing her son and livid at the justice system, who swiftly declared her guilty, despite an incompetent public attorney. ![]() Single-mother and former addict, Romy Hall, is about to start two consecutive life sentences for the brutal murder of a man who had been stalking her. ![]()
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