The Guest -- Emma Cline

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (<i>Vogue</i>), "smoldering" (<i>The Washington Post</i>) novel by the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Girls</i>.</b> <p/> <b>"Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force."--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>The New Yorker, Time, </i>NPR, <i>The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, </i>Chicago Public Library, <i>Electric Lit, Bookreporter</i></b> <p/><i>"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."</i> <p/>Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. <p/>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. <p/>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