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Rumaan Alam, Words and Photography, Bookshop.org

Johny Pitts talks to Rumaan Alam about his novel, Leave The World Behind, a suspenseful thriller about parenthood, race, and class in an uncertain world.

Johny Pitts talks to Rumaan Alam about his novel Leave The World Behind. Shortlisted for a National Book Award in the US, it's the story of a middle class family on holiday in a remote, beautiful house in Long Island, but their idyllic peace is broken by a knock at the door and news of a blackout across the region.
The novel explores prescient themes around parenthood, race, and class and what happens when our twenty four seven access to information disappears.

Geoff Dyer, writer and photography aficionado, and Sara Baume, a novelist and artist, explore the creative links between image and text; from insightful introductions in photobooks to photographic experiments in fiction.

And as many small independent bookshops have to close their front doors to Christmas book shoppers, we find out about a new online platform set up to help them reach customers at the busiest time of the year.

Image copyright: David A Land

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