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    Exploring The California Prison System In 'The Mars Room'

    Two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner's new novel centers on a woman who's sentenced to two life terms plus six years in a California prison.
    May 03, 2018 3 minutes
    "The Mars Room," by Rachel Kushner. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

    Two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner‘s new novel “The Mars Room” centers on a woman who’s sentenced to two life terms plus six years in a California prison.

    Kushner joins Here & Now‘s Mina Kim to talk about the book.

    Book Excerpt: ‘The Mars Room’

    by Rachel Kushner

    The trouble with San Francisco was that I could never have a future in that city, only a past.

    The city to me was the Sunset District, fog-banked, treeless, and bleak, with endless unvaried houses

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