Emma Cline The Guest-客人

在小说的开始时，性工作者亚历克斯被她富有的男友西蒙赶出了位于长岛东端的豪宅。亚历克斯必须做出选择：她可以回到这座城市，在那里她没有朋友，没有公寓，还有一个充满威胁的男人紧随其后；或者她可以等待西蒙的愤怒平息，希望他能在六天后的劳动节派对上挽回她。

她选择了后者。她唯一的工具是一袋名牌服装、被止痛药迷惑的大脑和一部即将失效的手机。但接下来的故事完全是一部披着惊悚片外衣的阶级讽刺剧，逐渐引人入胜。因为亚历克斯年轻、漂亮、衣着考究，所以她遇到的特权人士都相信她也是他们中的一员。他们把她迎入他们的派对、乡村俱乐部、汽车和家里。但亚历克斯是一个过于被动的角色，根本谈不上复仇。而这本书也并不是对富人的严厉打击，而是向读者发出令人不安的提醒：他们是刀枪不入的。

书名：The Guest《客人》

作者：Emma Cline

简介：A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of 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 Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.