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The Guest
A Literary Fiction Novel by Emma Cline
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Long Island,
- Impostor Syndrome Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Watching outsiders infiltrate elite summer enclaves
- Characters who manipulate their way through high-stakes social circles
- Stories where desperation drives every risky move
From Little Stack
The Guest would make an excellent beach read! Alex is a young woman on the edge. She’s behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York, she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she’s been seeing. But after one misstep at a dinner party, she’s dismissed and told to go back to the city. However, Alex decides to stay on the island instead…
She charms her way into the lives of the wealthy and leaves a trail of destruction behind her. How long can she keep going before she’s found out? This one is atmospheric, tension-filled and unpredictable, perfect for fans of The White Lotus.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • VULTURE'S INAUGURAL "BEACH BOOK READS" BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter
Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.
Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.
With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.
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