A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award
(Fiction) One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post
* Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New
York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today *
InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature
* Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe 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 of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the
complexities of parenthood race and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest
bonds are reshaped?and unexpected new ones are 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 a sudden 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?
