blog week 13 Free choice

I have just started the book Room.  It’s about a little boy who is 5 and his mother who have been locked into a room by his mother’s kidnapper.  The boy has never seen the outside of the room and his mother does her best to make things as normal for him as possible.  I am not too far into the book yet but it seems like it will be pretty interesting.  If I could ask the author a question about the book it would be if the book was based on a true story?  My assumption of the book is that the woman was kidnapped and her kidnapper is the father of her 5 yr old son.  They are being kept in a room where they eat, sleep and play.  The mother I don't think is in good health but still finds the strength to get up every day and teach the boy different things and play with him.  They have also made toys out of different things that other people would consider to be garbage.  For example a string threaded through a bunch of egg shells that is kept under the bed.  The boy knows when his mother is visited by the stranger at night.  He says that the room temp. is different.  I am trying hard to find the time to finish this book.