Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
- ISBN10 8420406619
- ISBN13 9788420406619
- Publish Date 30 March 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 August 2021
- Imprint Alfaguara
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 379
- Language Spanish