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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

The premise - an upper middle class family from NYC is on vacation at a remote cottage when the apocalypse happens - starts off strong. Unfortunately nothing much happens after 30%. I think the dynamics between the characters are good and read as authentic for the most part, but with so much possibility it just seems like a deficit of creativity to not do anything else with them. It reads very much like a short story writing exercise that ran out of steam.