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  1. One night, a man and his wife, George and Ruth, arrive at the house unexpectedly. They claim to be the owners of the house and explain their presence as due to a blackout in the city, offering a partial refund in return for George and Ruth staying in part of the house. Amanda receives news of a blackout across the East Coast of the United ...

    • October 6, 2020
    • Ecco
  2. Oct 6, 2020 · Yes, reading a book about the world falling apart while the literal world falls apart feels meta, but Leave the World Behind is also a much-needed, delicious escape.” — Shondaland “I avoided Apocalypse Stories for Months. Then Leave the World Behind Became My Greatest Comfort. . . . I read the book in one sitting, and have thought of it ...

  3. Oct 6, 2020 · Rumaan Alam. 3.17. 149,949 ratings22,186 reviews. A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a ...

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  5. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of 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 ...

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    • 7 hours and 26 minutes
    • Rumaan Alam
    • Marin Ireland
  6. Oct 5, 2020 · Soon after the novel begins, the family has finished up a long day at the beach, and a late-night knock on the door yanks them out of their reverie. It’s the house’s owners, George, or “G.H ...

    • Hillary Kelly
  7. Oct 6, 2020 · But the children disappear into the encroaching wild — as children on vacation are wont to do — and that wild answers back with alarming ferality. “Leave the World Behind” is Rumaan Alam ...

  8. A slippery and duplicitous marvel of a novel…. 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. — Fresh Air.

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