Rumaan Alam recommends 6 books on homes and domesticity

The novelist recommends works by Sarah Broom, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more

Novelist and critic Rumaan Alam is the author of Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. In his new novel, Leave the World Behind, a white couple in a rented beach house are unexpectedly joined by the black owners amid a coastal blackout.

The Past by Tessa Hadley (2015).

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