I’m ashamed to admit that fact alone piqued my interest, because I haven’t read a lot of fiction about this sort of thing before, and I’m a rubbernecker that’s morbidly fascinated with this darker part of our society. Before I picked up Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room, I had listened to an interview with Kushner on the CBC so I knew the novel is about a woman who goes to jail, and some of the other people she is incarcerated with. Anyway, my point is that I know barely anything about the penal system here and in the US, other than the fact that Canada doesn’t have the death penalty, and America does. I also watched a documentary once about solitary confinement, which also happened to be on Netflix. I’ll freely admit that all the knowledge perceptions I have about jail come from Netflix’s Orange is the New Black.
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