They haven’t gone far from their Brooklyn home, but far enough to feel like they are in a completely different world.
The book starts with Amanda and Clay heading to Long Island for a week of vacation. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. 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 another? 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 black couple-it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic.
But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Fingers crossed? From the Publisher:Īmanda 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. Here’s the thing though, there’s no guaranteed that 2021 will be any better. Just dangling in the unknown, masking up whenever we leave the house and finding reasons to fight with strangers and family alike on social media and in grocery store lines. And just when you thought it had gotten as bad as it could get, it got worse.Īnd eventually, I think we all gave up and we’ve been living in this purgatory ever since. There was a week in March when things in the world were changing so quickly that it was hard to keep up. It just so perfectly captures the essence of completely not quite understanding or dismissing reality until it actually is reality and it’s commonplace. I’ve seen the reviews from NPR, Time magazine and others. And that’s what Leave the World Behind does. There’s a special place in my heart for books that take me to an alternate reality and make me comfortable there, despite whatever the world there may be.
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