Here's one for you to savor : " The leader of the free world was sequestered beneath the White House, but no one cared about him, certainly not the little girl tripping through the woods and thinking about Harry Styles."
"It was the sound of fact. It was the change they'd pretended not to know was coming." It was the end of one kind of life, but it was the beginning of another kind of life."
I don't need to bolster this novel by Rumaan Alam because he does mighty fine all on his own. This was enriching, captivating, and truly thought provoking with plenty of take-aways to carry you over till Thanksgiving.
It's a situation in which one family meets another under bizarre circumstances and question the meaning of life. Should they venture out, should they explore internally, should they question what they're seeing playing out before their very eyes?
It begins with a vacation home on the outskirts of New York (rural, dark, desolate) but that's only the beginning as the supposed home owners arrive to conquer all preconceived ideas and notions.
As they embark on this journey together they visualize and form their own conceptual ideas in this imperfect world full of animosity, bigotry, racism, and more.
The cynical meets the empath the ruthless meets the worthy, the entire premise from narcissism in full bloom to the familiarity of love over hatred forms a concrete visual that you cannot ignore.
A truly remarkable novel that will incite all senses and fester a level of excitement not seen before.
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