Room

…was based on a 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue.

…Emma Donoghue, whose harrowing novel Room (2010) was made into an acclaimed feature film in 2015, and Claire Keegan, whose best-known works include the short story “Foster” (2010) and the novella Small Things Like These (2021). The latter confronts Ireland’s shameful legacy of the Magdalene laundries—workhouses run by Catholic religious…