![]() ![]() ![]() Is Leave the World Behind a disaster novel? Not quite. Yes, Leave the World Behind may be talked to death – but in the first month of 2021, when crisis feels like a chronic condition of life, it feels kind of nice to read a lonely novel in such rich company. ![]() But none of these reviews prepared me for the ecological reading the novel invites its overwhelming and effortless sense of scale its staging of characters against the murky background of crisis. With such a saturated storm of chatter surrounding it, Leave the World Behind arrived on my bookshelf primed to walk the line between over-wrought critical darling and disaster-novel-secretly-hiding-something-more-serious. Every major review venue has something to say about this narrow little apocalypse story, from meditations on its shifting point-of-view to comparisons to Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017). The popular conversation about Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel Leave the World Behind risks exhaustion. ![]()
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