The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."
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"A very smart work of literary fiction... Meloy is such a deft writer that she keeps the adventure plot whizzing along even as she deepens our sense of the characters and the unfamiliar culture they have to navigate." --Fresh Air, NPR
"Meloy is a subtle and sophisticated writer...Meloy pokes around in some profound subject matter...[her] portrait of well-meaning but still ugly Americans resonates." --New York Times "[Do Not Become Alarmed has] characters that are fully rendered and original, and writing that is beautifully spare and understated...while feeding us high drama." --Los Angeles Review of Books "[Meloy delivers] a wild, propulsive plot with tight prose and a constant current of suspense. It's a thrilling novel, well constructed and hard to put down, a sharp reminder that the tide can take us anywhere, even when the water looks fine." --Los Angeles Times "[For summer reading] I'll want a book that's thrilling and artful, a true page-turner that will leave me feeling smart, so I'll read Maile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed." --Ann Patchett in The Washington Post "Meloy reels you into the story with her cool and fluid prose." --The Christian Science Monitor "Our advice: Don't read Maile Meloy's new adrenaline-driven thriller of class, race, and disappeared children after dark... Do Not Become Alarmed will keep you up all night, compelled by the book's twisty plot and seductive, tightly wound suspense." --Elle "This summer's undoubtable smash hit... an addictive, heart-palpitating story." --Marie Claire "If there is one must-read book this summer, this is it." --Real Simple "Seen on pool loungers and beach towels from Nantucket to Santa Monica since the hardcover's debut in June, this thriller has become the page-turner of summer 2017." --Forbes "Enthralling and terrifying." --Town & Country "Fast-paced [and] engrossing." --People Magazine "A heart-racing tale." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Stressful and yet still sexy, complete with jaw-droppingly beautiful imagery." -Glamour "A taut, nervy thriller...Meloy has a keenly intuitive ear for family dynamics, first-world privilege, and all the ways that human nature can adapt to the unthinkable." --Entertainment Weekly "A marital reboot becomes a zip line to disaster in Maile Meloy's holiday cruise-set thriller Do Not Become Alarmed, in which the children's moral complexity outstrips that of their parents." --Vogue "Seen on pool loungers and beach towels since June, this thriller has become the page-turner of summer 2017." -Forbes "Meloy, whose short stories were the basis of last year's indie film Certain Women, writes a tense book in her signature sparing prose, and may have the book of the summer on her hands." --Conde Nast Traveler "The tension will keep your heart racing with every page, as you become increasingly invested in the uncertain fate of each narrator." --InStyle "Glides along with a clarity that's almost uncanny... readers of Do Not Become Alarmed get Meloy's warmth and her even-tempered, protean imagination. Her view of human nature is almost Olympian in its refusal to take sides, in the consideration it affords to characters who would be mere bit players in a more conventional work. This novel is a bait and switch in the best possible sense. It promises readers easy-to-identify-with protagonists in a pair of mothers going through a parent's worst nightmare. Then it presents them with so much more, a richer, broader palette of people to believe in and to understand." --Slate "[A] smart, suspenseful page-turner." --W Magazine "'Page-turner' would be an understatement." --Travel & Leisure "This book is smarter than your average thriller." --Fodor's "Nothing pairs better with summer than a suspense that will keep you guessing (especially when it involves a cruise ship). The pulse-inducing unputdownable tale about the disappearance of four children on a family cruise, Do Not Become Alarmed is a powerful suspense that will leave readers asking themselves if family truly keeps us safe." --RedbookMaile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review), and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
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