Audio Book Club: Emma Donoghue’s Room

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Audio Book Club: Emma Donoghue’s Room

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Feb 27, 2011

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Slate’s Audio Book Club discusses Emma Donoghue’s Room, a best-selling novel about a 5-year-old boy raised by his mother in a shed where she has been held prisoner since before he was born.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 27, 2011

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Join Slate's critics for monthly discussions of new and important books. Read the book club selections and then listen in as our critics hold lively - and sometimes heated - debates about the works. Part of the Panoply Network.

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