SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONTHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind&10;Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.&10;Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf&8217;s A Room of One&8217;s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one&8217;s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.&10;How central is the room? And what happens once we get one?