Description
A long-awaited weekend getaway to a remote Long Island rental turns into a tense, morally charged standoff when two families—strangers to one another—are abruptly forced together after a sudden blackout cuts off the city and all reliable communication. As Amanda and Clay grapple with fear, uncertainty, and the limits of trust, Ruth and G. H. arrive with unsettling information and competing claims about what’s happening beyond the walls. In Rumaan Alam’s suspenseful, razor-observed style, the novel turns a crisis into a pressure test for parenthood, race, and class, revealing how quickly comfort can curdle into suspicion. With every new development, bonds are strained and remade, asking what safety really means when the world you know disappears—and when the people beside you become the only possible lifeline.
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hardcover
Ecco
Published Oct 6, 2020
256 pages
ISBN: 9780062667632
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam.