Romy Hall is a former stripper. But that's in the past. In the future - two life sentences in one of the California prisons. Behind the fence remained her little son Jackson and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside the prison, a new reality awaits her: thousands of women trying to survive, the cruelty of guards and prisoners, the absurdity of life behind bars, described with humor and attention to detail. “Room on Mars” is a novel that is shocking in its frankness and not at all sentimental in its descriptions of everyday life. women whose lives turned into a disaster. The book contains obscene language.