“The Guest” is a strong follow-up to Emma Cline’s bestselling debut novel, “The Girls”
But Alex is unable to make the good times last for long. High on, she crashes Simon’s car; later she gets drunk and disgraces herself at a party. She is soon cast out of this home, too. She cannot return to the city . She stole cash and drugs from Dom, an acquaintance, before she absconded, and he is violent and vengeful.
Alex decides that Simon only needs some space and that they will reunite at another upcoming party. In the subsequent days, she survives using her charm and wits alone. She finds places to sleep and food to eat by adapting to the opportunities presented to her. She ingratiates herself first with a group of partygoers, then a kindly housekeeper, then a troubled teenage boy.. Her prose is limpid and propulsive, sustaining an atmosphere of dread.
Her upbringing was “ordinary”, so her self-destructive tendencies are not reducible to “some logical equation—This can be frustrating for a reader hoping to understand Alex more fully, yet it underlines how adept she is at performance. By the end of the novel, Alex’s sense of self has been eroded entirely. “Maybe she was the ghost she had always imagined herself to be,” Ms Cline writes. “Maybe it was a relief.
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