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Yeah, but for me, see, Jack was everything. I was alive again, I mattered. So after that I was polite. Polite? Oh, you mean with— It was all about keeping Jack safe. Was it agonizingly hard to be, as you put it, polite? Ma shakes her head. I did it on autopilot, you know, Stepford Wife. The

Emma Donoghue

Yeah, but for me, see, Jack was everything. I was alive again, I mattered. So after that I was polite. Polite? Oh, you mean with— It was all about keeping Jack safe. Was it agonizingly hard to be, as you put it, polite? Ma shakes her head. I did it on autopilot, you know, Stepford Wife. The

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About Emma Donoghue

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.