Leave the World Behind (Paperback)

from Tytania

I saw this book well described as "a disaster novel without the disaster." All that the characters know for sure about the disaster is that power went out on the East Coast. It becomes eerier than that, but I won't give away any spoilers. The plot is simple. A Brooklyn family of four rents an A...

from jmchshannon

Reading Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam during an ongoing pandemic may not seem like a good idea. After all, a story about what looks like a catastrophic event as experienced by two families with no access to the news is a little too on-the-nose considering current events. For those brave e...

from dianeham

GREAT! I don't understand why people didn't like this book. I think it is brilliant. It's poetry. Everything is happening somewhere else and in the future.

from bookworm12

This book feels impossible to categorize, is it a family drama, a thriller, an end-of-the-world novel? It's all of those things. It's insular, giving us a glimpse at just two families at a Long Island vacation home when technology stops working. We know little except their reactions. It struck me...

from technodiabla

It's difficult to categorize this novel. It's about two families who collide under strange circumstances. It's about how they deal with their differences, how they deal with disaster, and how they face the abyss. I won't say more. No spoilers. I found this novel frustrating because I love the pr...