About the book: If I had to choose one novel for readers of the future to help them understand what it was like to live through 2020, I’d choose Leave the World Behind. A slippery and duplicitous marvel, Rumaan Alam’s story opens on the domestic bickering of a family vacation car trip. It quickly takes on aspects of both a suspense story and a witty comedy of manners about race. Very slowly, it morphs into a vision of disaster that both the characters and we readers keep denying. Atmospheric and prescient, Alam’s novel captures the rhythms of how we live right now.

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