This particular book began with setting, more than people. When did these characters first make themselves known to you? Massive herds of deer seem to be migrating out of the area, a chilling sound rends the sky that leaves everyone reeling, and, horrifyingly, Amanda and Clay’s son starts losing his teeth. What could be a simple tale of racial tensions - given the white couple’s distrust of the black couple - changes course, however, as more and more signs that something is amiss come to light. but since we can see into everyone’s heads, we know that the older folks are telling the truth: It’s their house and they don’t know where else to go. Amanda, Clay, and their teenage children have just reached that sweet spot of vacation stupor where they’re perhaps starting to get bored, when the owners of the house - a wealthy, older black couple - return in the middle of the night with some troubling news: The entire East Coast is experiencing a blackout and there’s no real explanation.Īmanda and Clay are suspicious of the couple - Ruth and G.H. In his newest novel, Leave the World Behind, he slides easily into an array of personas, which proves that when it comes to the end of the world, we all pretty much all freak out the same.Īlam’s third novel features an omniscient narrator trundling us along as a white middle-class family heads to Long Island for a week at a stunning Airbnb. Novelist Rumaan Alam refuses to be confined to one race, gender, or sexuality when he picks up the pen.
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