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Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind (Hardcover, 2020, Ecco) 3 stars

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: …

stuff of nightmares

5 stars

This book was incredible and I don’t want to write anything very detailed about it because it’s really quite something to watch it unfold. I know some people have knocked it for being “yet another dystopia,” but if that’s the only thing they’re getting out of a tightly wound psychological drama that’s far more about race & class than it is the weird shit going bump in the night… then idmfk. But check this out; I gobbled it right down after having trouble focusing on books this month.

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