retire to the finished basement to go to bed. She finally agrees and they return to the kitchen where they talk with the Washingtons about what might have caused the blackout. Clay reassures her and insists that letting them stay is the right thing to do.
She asks to speak to Clay privately.Īmanda tells Clay she does not believe the Washingtons really own the home her suspicion is primarily due to her disbelief that a black couple could be wealthy enough to have a nice vacation house. Amanda checks her cellphone and sees a news headline about a blackout, but then her phone loses service. offers to repay part of their rental fee. They ask if they can stay the night in the house. There was a blackout in the city and it scared them so they fled to Long Island. They are the owners of the vacation house and they have driven in from Manhattan. They are both frightened, but Clay answers the door to find a black couple in their 60s on the other side. The children go to bed, and shortly thereafter, Amanda and Clay hear a knock at the door. The next day, the family goes to a nearby beach, then returns to the house for dinner. They pass an ordinary first day, buying groceries for the house and swimming in the pool.
Clay is a professor at City College and Amanda is an advertising executive. They are an ordinary white, upper-middle-class family from New York. Leave the World Behind begins with a couple named Clay and Amanda and their teenage children Archie and Rose arriving at the secluded house on Long Island they have rented for their vacation. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Alam, Rumaan.
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