Romy is a former dancer at a strip club called Mars Room, had killed a man, Kurt Kennedy. She was convicted and had a long sentenced for her wrongdoing. Kurt had stalked, obsessed, hunted and never let her up. The prosecutor denied the self-defense situation instead dubious about the work she did to make a living. This novel starts out as a relatively straightforward story about a chaotic lives of women in a correctional facility from multiple first person narrators. All of them were people who suffered along the way of their childhood. It reveals a horrifying side of prison life and the injustice system. The Mars Room was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. I read this book due to all the hype but wasn't my favorite because of a few minor quibbles.