Room

This novel by Emma Donoghue, depicts the life of an ordinary mother and child. The mother, who had been kidnapped when she was in her college years, was imprisoned in a small shed in the backyard of her captor. There, after a few years, she gave birth to a small boy. As he had grown in the small 11x11 room, he believed it to be the world, literally! Jack (the boy) thought that if he opened the door, he would be floating in outer space. He had a TV and saw pictures of other people, but believed them to be imaginary. In this Room, Jack studies, plays, eats and sleeps. He loves Room to death, but only his mother knows the pain of being stuck there for eight years. Finally, on his fifth birthday, his mother tells him the truth about the outside world. He doesn't believe her at all and starts to crib. But when they try to make an escape plan to get out of there, he turns serious. The first plan fails, but then when they try again, the Great Escape works miraculously, and he is out in the world. It is a beautiful story, nothing like the others I have ever read. I thought that the idea and setting was just creative and innovating. It is suitable for kids and adults of all ages, classified in Realistic Fiction (by me).