It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize that same year. After it’s release it went on to become a New York Times bestseller for Fiction and eventually made it to the newspaper’s 2010 Best Books of the Year list. Raped repeatedly since her abduction by a man they only call as Old Nick, she bore a child who is now 5 years old and she named him Jack. Written by Irish-born Canadian writer Emma Donoghue, Room is about a young woman, kidnapped when she was 19 years old and was made to stay in a 12-foot square reinforced shed for seven years. Well that is an understatement considering how many times I have to stop and feel a lot of the book’s emotionally moving sentences. But their days and, especially, nights together are always at risk of being interrupted by a visit from the man who Jack calls “Old Nick,” who seems to him like some combination of a malevolent Old Testament God and Santa Claus.Living so much to it’s hype, I enjoyed this book so much. By creating elaborate rituals and routines to structure their days, Joy has taught her son (Jacob Tremblay) to read, write, and do basic math together, they sing songs, learn to measure, and even bake a birthday cake. After spending a couple of years in a deep depression, she gives birth, alone, to a boy who becomes her reason for coming back to life. The crime Room imagines is less lurid but just as painful: Joy (Brie Larson), abducted at 19 by a stranger (Sean Bridgers), is locked in a soundproofed garden shed in his backyard. Room was loosely inspired (or, as Donoghue has put it, “triggered”) by the real-life story of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man who for 24 years confined his daughter in his basement, where she gave birth to seven children fathered by him. Yet the story it tells is not only one of fear and deprivation: In the shared world 5-year-old Jack and his young mother manage to create together, there is also humor, beauty, and love.
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, based on the excellent 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue (who also scripted), turns an unflinching eye on the day-to-day reality of parenting while kidnapped.
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