New York: Scribner, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Kushner's third novel (both of her first two novels were nominated for the National Book Award). It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living." SIGNED on the title page. Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the 2018 Prix MŽdicis ƒtrange. A novel about "a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-1476756554.