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About Rumaan Alam
American writer
Rumaan Alam is an American writer, best known for his novel Leave the World Behind. He writes fiction with a contemporary, observant edge, and his work has reached a wide readership through Leave the World Behind, which became his best-known book. Beyond that title, he is known for writing about present-day life and the pressures that shape it.
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- “It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is…”Rumaan Alam
- “Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of va…”Rumaan Alam
- “To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy…”Rumaan Alam
- “It's my own personal hang-up, but I find adults who are picky eaters to be the worst. I don't mean food aller…”Rumaan Alam
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- “Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”Dejan Stojanovic
- “Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the…”Compton Gage
- “Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I…”Georgina Chapman
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Books by Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind
2020
Rich and pretty
2016
That kind of mother
2018