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Alam Rumaan
Alam Rumaan - Leave The World Behind A Novel - Hardcover
Alam Rumaan - Leave The World Behind A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) One of Barack Obama's Summer Favorites A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * Book Page * The Globe and Mail * EW. com * The L a Times * US a Today * In Style * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * Lit Hub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe 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 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 luxurious home they ve rented for the week. But a late - night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple it's their house and they ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. 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. 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?
Title: Leave The World Behind A Novel
Author(s): Alam Rumaan
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062667632
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Description: A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) One of Barack Obama's Summer Favorites A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * Book Page * The Globe and Mail * EW. com * The L a Times * US a Today * In Style * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * Lit Hub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe 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 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 luxurious home they ve rented for the week. But a late - night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple it's their house and they ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. 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. 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?
Title: Leave The World Behind A Novel
Author(s): Alam Rumaan
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062667632
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/6/2020