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A review by savaging
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
5.0
I could tell right away this would be a book where the eerie was tucked up into the normal. I knew it would be filled with rich sensory detail. I knew it would mess with my mind, to read about the opaque, banal horror of global catastrophe -- how the people inside them wait for an explanation that never comes.
But I didn't know that the book would be tender. With such an unlikeable bourgeois white couple at the onset, and their awful reaction to the Black homeowners, I was expecting a Jordan Peel horror story. But all things considered, this is a far more gentle apocalypse than it could be.
But I didn't know that the book would be tender. With such an unlikeable bourgeois white couple at the onset, and their awful reaction to the Black homeowners, I was expecting a Jordan Peel horror story. But all things considered, this is a far more gentle apocalypse than it could be.