This episode of other people is brought to you by Back Bay Books, publisher of the novel Room by Emma Donahue, now available in trade paperback.

Room is a runaway international bestseller that the New Yorker calls astounding and terrifying.

O Magazine says, quote, a novel so disturbing that we defy you to stop thinking about it days later, end quote.

And Kirkus calls it a searing tale of survival and recovery in the voice of a five-year-old boy,

wrenching as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching, and at times unexpectedly funny.

End quote.

That's Room by Emma Donahue,

available now in trade paperback from Back Bay.

It's a book.

You can read it.

Go and get it.

Oh, my God.

You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

I think it's really beautiful.

Jesus, what a struggle, you know?

It was incredible.

It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

And now here's your host, Bradley Steen.

Just one person at just one time.

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