Arts & CultureSaturday, November 14
The Guest by Emma Cline
Saturday, November 14 · 5-7 p.m. · RedRocks Columbia Heights
- When
- Saturday, November 14 · 5-7 p.m.
- Where
- RedRocks Columbia Heights1036 Park Rd NW · Washington, DC · 20010
About this event
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61986136-the-guest
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls .
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.
Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.
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