Last One Out: A Novel Mai Nguyen during Hurricane Marie in 1984

during Hurricane Marie in 1984

presses his ears to the hotel’s walls

the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara

“The Layover”

Last One Out: A Novel Mai Nguyen during Hurricane Marie in 1984From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town. Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned,