Good-bye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say good-bye, I tell Ma. Good-bye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
Emma Donoghue
Good-bye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say good-bye, I tell Ma. Good-bye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
