Leave the world behind rumaan6/30/2023 Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple-and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam's third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. But in this rural area-with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service-it's hard to know what to believe. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. are an older couple-it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. They arrive, they settle in, they swim, and apart from the terrible phone. It begins with a New York family - husband, wife, boy and girl - driving to a remote house theyre renting for their summer holiday on Long Island. 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 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. Rumaan Alams Leave The World Behind isnt so much a dystopian novel as a novel that hints of a dystopian world to come.
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