![]() Your characters are painfully aware of how ill-equipped they are to deal with societal collapse. People are thinking and talking about this stuff so it makes sense that there will be books about it. I think it’s connected to other books that are talking about some of the same things – about the individual relationship to anxiety over the climate, the absurdity of the contemporary moment, our warped relationship to technology. ![]() On a very basic level, the book dramatises being trapped in at home and not having enough information – and it happened to be published into a reality in which many readers felt that they were trapped in their homes and didn’t have enough information. I’d never even heard the word coronavirus prior to February 2020. ![]() Alam lives in Brooklyn with his husband, David Land, a photographer, and their two adopted sons.Ī lot of reviewers called your book “prescient”, given that you wrote it before the pandemic. Now out in paperback, it is being turned into a film by Sam Esmail ( Mr Robot) starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The story of two families, one white, one black, thrust together in a Long Island holiday home amid apocalyptic events, it was described by the Observer as “simply breathtaking… as terrifying and prescient as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”. ![]() ![]() He is the author of three novels, the latest of which, Leave the World Behind, got rave reviews when it came out in hardback last year. R umaan Alam was born in 1977 and raised in Washington DC. ![]()
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