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Leave the World Behind: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Rumaan Alam (Author), Marin Ireland (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) 3.6 19,157 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)
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Leave the World Behind is atmospheric and prescient: Its rhythms of comedy alternating with shock and despair mimic so much of the rhythms of life right now. That's more than enough to make it a signature novel for this blasted year.
Oct 6, 2020 · Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis.
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Oct 6, 2020 · In “Leave the World Behind,” Rumaan Alam imagines what happens when homeowners interrupt their renters’ idyll to seek refuge from a crisis.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell.
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Leave the World Behind is elegant, sensuous, thrilling, taut. It is an incisive examination of race and class, an absorbing story about what the beginning of the end of the world might look like. This novel is a towering achievement. Rumaan Alam’s prose is precise, pointed, gorgeous.
Oct 5, 2020 · Hillary Kelly reviews Rumaan Alam’s new novel, “Leave the World Behind,” which follows its privileged characters on a getaway to the Hamptons as the world crumbles around them.
