Book cover for 'Leave the World Behind' by Rumaan Alam. The cover features a minimalist design with a dark blue background, a swimming pool, and trees silhouetted against a night sky. The text indicates that the book was a 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) finalist, with a discussion led by Suzanne Crain Miller.

Book Discussion: Leave the World Behind

Embarrassingly, Rumaan Alam was not on my radar until I heard an interview with him on NPR. As he summarized this recent work for the listeners, I was shocked, as I’m sure you will be if you choose to read it, that it was written a good two years before the pandemic. Like some fiction […]

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