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Leave the World Behind

A Novel

Rumaan Alam

"Leave the World Behind" is a captivating novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. A sudden blackout sweeps the city and a panicked older black couple arrives at the luxurious rental house the other family is staying at. With no means of communication to the outside world, tensions rise as the families are unsure who to trust and if they are truly safe from each other. This suspenseful and thought-provoking book delves into the complexities of parenthood, race, and class during moments of crisis.
Publish Date
2020-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
2020-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.17
ISBN
9780062667632
Recommendations
3
Recommendations
2020-08-02T17:57:22.000Z
I INHALED @Rumaan’s new book LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. I raced to the end, heart pounding, desperate to know how it ended. It’s a beautiful, delicious, terrifying novel. I want to read it again. Preorder now.      source
2021-01-16T22:27:22.000Z
5/ Leave the World Behind by @Rumaan. Mind-bending. Underlined a line in the middle of the book that sums up the book (and the experience reading it): "Whatever they thought they understood was not wrong but irrelevant." Unsettling, provocative, original.      source
2021-02-18T17:38:48.000Z
@gamedev_fitness @Rumaan I still think about this book at least once a day and I read it a couple of months back. It sticks with me!      source