The Guest Room
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804170987
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Guest Room

A Novel

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Light in the Ruins comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the entertainment—two scared young women brought there by force—will kill their captors and drive off into the night.
 
With their house now a crime scene, Kristin's and Richard’s life spirals into nightmare. Kristin is unable to forgive her husband for his lapses in judgement, or for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But for the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, the danger is just beginning.  

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  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804170987
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian has written four novels and reviews regularly for the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post. He is married with children.

Also by Chris Bohjalian

The Flight Attendant
Before You Know Kindness
Idyll Banter
The Law of Similars
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Praise for The Guest Room

  • Bohjalian is at his best in The Guest Room, one of his most compelling books so far, combining an explosive premise, a timely social topic, and fast-paced storytelling with a purpose." --The Miami Herald
  • "The Guest Room pulses quick as a page-turner, but its concerns run deep into the moral consequences following an eruption of violence in ordinary lives." --Charles Frazier, National Book Award-winning author of Cold Mountain
  • "The Guest Room has an edge-of-the-seat momentum that propels the reader straight to the last page... For those who value the well-researched novel, the author's 18th book will please... Promises to enlighten and entertain." --Anita Shreve, The Washington Post
  • "Bohjalian's deftness as a story teller is on full display here, as he couples the urgency of a compulsively readable crime thriller with a quiet meditation on the meaning of family and relationships; the painstaking, quotidian, essential business of how we win love, and how swiftly we can lose it." --Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March
  • "Reads like a thriller.... Does a terrific job of exploring the very dark side of trafficking and the women who are preyed on.... Lots to discuss, and book clubs should take note." --Bookreporter

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