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Oct 6, 2020 · Amanda and Clay, and their two children, head to a remote area of Long Island to vacation at a beautiful Airbnb. After a day of of fun and sun, a knock at the front door takes them out of their reverie. On the other side of the door is George and his wife, Ruth. They are the owners of the home.
Oct 6, 2020 · A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.
Leave the World Behind is a 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, published by Ecco. In 2023, the novel was adapted into a feature film by Netflix.
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.
- Rumaan Alam
Oct 6, 2020 · Keila Shaheen’s self-published best seller book, “The Shadow Work Journal,” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
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.
Rumaan Alam's Leave The World Behind isn't so much a dystopian novel as a novel that hints of a dystopian world to come. It begins with a New York family - husband, wife, boy and girl - driving to a remote house they're renting for their summer holiday on Long Island.
- Rumaan Alam
An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory' OBSERVER***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each...
Dec 9, 2023 · 'Leave the World Behind' author Rumaan Alam discussed the Netflix film adaptation's power of uncertainty and the accuracy of G.H.'s explanation.
Nov 22, 2023 · When Rumaan Alam's novel Leave the World Behind was first published in the fall of 2020, there was a wry irony to the ways in which its fictional world, ravaged by an alarming and mysterious...
