![]() ![]() There are strong echoes of Jordan Peele’s Get Out as the reader is asked to join Amanda and Clay in ascertaining how threatening this couple are. ![]() GH and Ruth, it transpires, are the owners of the house, even though Amanda thinks to herself that it didn’t seem “like the sort of house where black people lived”. A black couple – GH (George) Washington and his wife, Ruth, ask to come in. Then, one night, there’s a knock on the door. Amanda is in advertising, Clay teaches at City College and reviews for the New York Times – they are comfortable, in love, delighted by their children. Amanda and Clay take their teenage children – Archie and Rose – away to a remote Long Island holiday house where they are able to “pantomime ownership” of the Vermont stone kitchen tops and night-lit swimming pool. Alam is a writer of scrupulous precision, drawing the reader into the world of his characters through detailed inventories of the objects about them. ![]()
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