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Review: The Guest by Emma Cline

The Guest by Emma Cline Blurb from Goodreads : A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't, determined to inhabit a world of privilege, in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. 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. 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 the end of the holidays moving from one place ...