A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel
by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
"A grifter tale for the post Anna Delvey era."--Vogue
"Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked
calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go
damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would
stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to
another."
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 rarefied 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.
