{"id":37961,"date":"2020-10-27T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=37961"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:09:58","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-october-pick-leave-the-world-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/jenna-bush-hager-october-pick-leave-the-world-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager October Pick – ‘Leave the World Behind’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0Leave the World Behind\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Rumaan Alam as the October pick for her #ReadWithJenna book club.<\/a><\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0Leave the World Behind<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they\u2019ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple\u2014it\u2019s their house, and they\u2019ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area\u2014with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service\u2014it\u2019s hard to know what to believe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple\u2014and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?<\/em><\/p>\n

Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam\u2019s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped\u2014and unexpected new ones are forged\u2014in moments of crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to make sure that Jenna\u2019s picks are automatically put on hold for you? Be sure to join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0Leave the World Behind\u00a0by Rumaan Alam as the October pick for her #ReadWithJenna book club. Curious what\u00a0Leave the World Behind is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher. A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,13,1,8],"tags":[5293,5268,5281,1505,402,5267,5481,3666,331,1089],"class_list":["post-37961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-news","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-readwithjenna","tag-best-sellers-club","tag-celebrity-book-club","tag-families","tag-fiction","tag-jenna-bush-hager","tag-long-island","tag-strangers","tag-suspense","tag-vacations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-9Sh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37961\/revisions\/37965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}