The Guest

The Guest

By Emma Cline

Pages

304

Rating

3.33

Year

2023

ContemporaryThrillerFictionPsychologyMysteryPsychological

Description

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 rarified 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.

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel.

Endorsements

New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

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