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Rumaan Alam is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother and Leave the World Behind, which was an international bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orwell Prize, and adapted for a major motion picture in 2023 starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. Alam’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Bookforum and New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.
These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap -- Kiley Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age ‘Should come with an undertow warning…I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster’ -- Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman ‘Held me spellbound from its evocative opening to its startling, audacious last pages’ -- Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia ‘Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart … Elegant, precise and devastating’ -- Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown PRAISE FOR RUMAAN ALAM A writer of scrupulous precision * Guardian * In his dazzling prose, his fascination with catastrophe and his apparent ability to portend the future, Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo * Sunday Times *
