Room

Emma Donoghue’s seventh novel Room is the story of a young woman and her five-year-old son, both of whom have been held captive for years in a single, locked room. (It is based on a true story, which appears to be just as terrifying as the as the novel.) The narrative is told from the point of view of the young boy, and much of the book’s suspense (or at least tension) arises from the reader trying to figure out what is happening through his limited perspective. Books with child narrators can be difficult to pull off successfully, but Donoghue mostly does it.