A ridiculed night editor for a prestigious newspaper. An overburdened nuclear engineer. A female fighter pilot. A religiously impassioned young reporter. A sergeant major thrust into the responsibilities of a secretive command. Moving from a newsroom in the American capital to a cockpit over Afghanistan, from an Iranian cemetery to a military intelligence office in suburban Washington, The Room and The Chair by Lorraine Adams-award-winning author of Harbor-is an unforgettable, groundbreaking novel about the often overlooked actors in today's dangerous world.

Lorraine Adams is a novelist, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Her novel Harbor won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the Orange and Guardian First Book prizes, and was selected as a New York Times Best Book, as a Washington Post Notable Book, and as Entertainment Weekly's Best Novel of the Year. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum and was a staff writer at The Washington Post for eleven years. She lives in New York City. Visit the author's website at www.lorraineadams.net.