Why am I passionate about this?
When I began writing my first novel, the words “what happens next is up to all of us” became my guiding mantra. I have just completed my second novel with the same theme, The Space Between Dark and Light. It will be released early in 2023. During the years between the two books, I have become a speaker on topics related to the environment and peace. In 2020, I received an award as a Creative Environmental and Peace Activist from Visioneers International Network. It is the thought of the world our grandchildren (and generations after them) will inherit from us that makes me care passionately about the future.
Jan's book list on the world we're leaving to future generations
Why did Jan love this book?
This novel pulled me in quickly with its portrayal of a middle-class family hoping to spend a relaxing week in a rented home they could never afford to own. The family’s plans go awry quickly when the owners show up at door wanting to stay there as a refuge from the total blackout in NYC. Adding suspense to witty social commentary, Alam creates a sense that something very bad is happening, without ever describing what that bad thing is. I had a few ideas, but the author outsmarted and surprised me with the ending. I feel he captured a lot about modern life and the anxiety many of us feel about the future. Yet, it was entertaining and made me laugh a few times.
2 authors picked Leave the World Behind as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
*A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER*
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021*
'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE
'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease' DAVID NICHOLLS
'I was hooked from the opening pages' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Simply breathtaking . . . An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory' OBSERVER
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A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong
Amanda and Clay head…