10 Discussion Questions for Book Clubs and Others Room: A Novel
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learn how to request permission to reproduce it. Emma Donoghue
calls Room a novel about a “battle between Mary and the Devil
for young Jesus,” and it’s easy to see why. Her narrator is
5-year-old Jack, who spends his life imprisoned in a garden shed
until he emerges from his tomb-like structure on Easter. He
escapes with the help of his saintly mother, who has devoted
herself to saving him from their jailor, a man who abducted and
raped her and fathered J