Leave the World Behind

22 October 2020: “'I would feel better if I just knew what was happening.’ Amanda looked toward the hall, could hear the plash of water in the bathtub. These words were not true, but she did not know that.” –Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind

Finished this book last night. It's so good, but I don't think I want to ever read it again, at least not until "these interesting times" are over. Passages like the one above epitomize what it does so well--the haunting narrative voice, the little details, the increasingly desperate characters. A profoundly unsettling book.