The Guest

By Emma Cline

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Guest (2023) is a novel by Emma Cline about a young woman drifting through the wealthy summer world of Long Island. Alex, twenty-two, has been living with an older, wealthy boyfriend, Simon, but after she embarrasses him at a party he sends her back to the city. With nowhere to go and a debt hanging over her, she decides to stay on the East End until his Labor Day party, moving from house to house and relying on charm and deception.

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