{"id":14041,"date":"2021-01-16T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/leave-the-world-behind\/"},"modified":"2021-01-16T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:45:04","slug":"leave-the-world-behind","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/leave-the-world-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave the World Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation:\u00a0a 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\u2019ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older black couple\u2014it\u2019s their house, and they\u2019ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area\u2014with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service\u2014it\u2019s hard to know what to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Should Amanda and Clay trust this\u00a0couple\u2014and 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 another?<\/p>\n<p>Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam\u2019s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.\u00a0<em>Leave the World Behind\u00a0<\/em>explores how our closest bonds are reshaped\u2014and unexpected new ones are forged\u2014in moments of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14041","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14041"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}