My only advice: Read it with the lights on. It’s chilling and mysterious but also poignant and even funny. Show more Genres FictionThrillerMysteryAudiobookHorrorMystery ThrillerContemporary. Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind A Word on Words NPT Nashville Public Television 29.2K subscribers 1. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshapedand unexpected new ones are forgedin moments of crisis. With October being the month for eerie stories, I could not imagine a better book to pick up than Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam's third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. As the isolated strangers navigate their new relationship, mysterious happenings continue to make them question everything they think they know. Everything is going well at the secluded property they rented in a far-flung corner of Long Island, until an elderly Black couple-the owners, as it turns out-knocks at the door in the middle of the night, seeking refuge from a blackout in the city. The story begins with Amanda, a type-A working mom her cigarette-sneaking husband, Clay and their two teenage children, Rose and Archie as they embark on a picturesque vacation from their busy Brooklyn-based lives. I’m not typically drawn to books like this but I was captivated by Alam’s masterfully written characters and the detail and intimacy with which he writes about family dynamics and race. The feelings of isolation, fear and uncertainty were so vivid in Alam’s writing that I worried it would be too immediate. I first read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam in the middle of the darkest days of the pandemic.
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