The Guest

Hardcover On Sale Date: May 16, 223 34 pages 21 cm H | 14 cm W | 1.9 cm T | 438.2 g Wt 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. Story Locale: Long Island, NY Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Women