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.
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. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Netflix has already snapped it up after a heated bidding war, with Sam Esmail directing. In Alam’s spectacular and ominous latest (after That Kind of Mother), a family’s idyllic summer retreat. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) 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 * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * 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. Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, Leave the World Behind, is poised to be one of the biggest titles of the fall. Ecco, 27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-266763-2.
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