Kilbourn Public Library Book Club

The Kilbourn Public Library Book Discussion has chosen the book Room by Emma Donoghue for the March selection.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world...It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn.  At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years.  Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space.  But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Why do you think the author chose to tell the story of Room through Jack and not through an omniscient, third-person narrator?

Which elements of Jack's developmental delays and/or his integration issues surprised you most?

Did you find yourself wanting to know more about Old Nick?  If so, why do you think this is?

Let us know what you think of Room.