![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to his roots with the story of Bucky Cantor. Kaplan says it explores the parent-child bond, the meaning of family, and is sure to be a book-club favorite. Quickly, you learn that they live in captivity and want to escape from their captor. "Room" is told through the eyes of 5-year-old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room and reads and plays as he listens to his mom tell him about the outside world. The 1,000-page book hits store shelves, Tuesday, Sept. Kaplan says Follet writes grand, ambitious novels that are perennial bestsellers. Ultimately, it connects to the rich English family that owns the mine, all the way up to English royalty. A sprawling saga with interconnected stories, Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants" begins at the start of World War I with a Welsh boy working in the coal mines.
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