The Guest

<b>A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Girls</i>.</b><br /><br />Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's <i>The Guest </i>is a spellbinding literary achievement.