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A Read with JennaTodayShow Book Club Pick!
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)
One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reads
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A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
From the bestselling author ofRich and Prettycomes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.Leave the World Behindexplores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new onesare forged-in moments of crisis.
Amanda 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. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple-it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that asudden blackout has swept the city. 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.
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 other?