The difference between Leave the World Behind and those other books is that there is no Katniss Everdeen. I’ve read lots of dystopian novels I love YA, and dystopia is a staple of YA. This one is about a family isolated in their house while the world collapses around them. Like I said when I talked about The Pull of the Stars: when things are going badly in the world, my impulse is often to retreat into escapist fiction. I say this a lot about books I was assigned to read for book club: I would not have read this if left to my own devices. It’s the kind of book that will stick with you, make you think about things you need to think about, and force you to confront things you’d rather not. It’s a fantastic book: well-written, socially aware, terrifying, and completely comfortable dwelling on the uncertainties that so many of us would rather ignore. Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind has been getting a lot of hype recently, and for good reason.
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