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reshmasham 's review for:
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
I’m sad this was my very last book of the year as I’ve read so many great books these past few months. But I suppose it’s a fitting ending to a crap year. So long 2020 and so long Leave the World Behind! It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has received so much praise that I was looking forward to reading it, but it is just terrible. The characters are stilted, the writing mediocre at best, and the ending unsatisfactory. I guess if you like pages and pages of detail about the same scene with almost nothing really happening, then this may be the book for you. Otherwise skip it!