The call is coming from inside the house in Emma Cline's latest novel, 'The Guest.'
, 22-year-old Alex never forgets to smile. She smiles to herself while pumping an eyelash curler, while fixing her part, while requesting a vodka soda at dinner parties where she’s bored out of her mind. She smiles despite the persistent stye drooping her left eyelid. See, if she stops smiling, people might ask questions.Daddy
In the novel, Alex, a former sex worker, shacks up Simon, a wealthy older boyfriend in the Hamptons, until he kicks her out after she makes a regrettable social infraction at a dinner party. Convinced he will want her back at his upcoming Labor Day party, she is determined to stay in the Hamptons for an extra week, a place where, “[t]he cars left unlocked, no one wanting to carry their keys on the beach.
Throughout the novel, we follow as Alex tries to traverse what feels like impossible levels in a claustrophobic video game, as she lives, quite literally, hand to mouth, and steadily terrorizes the town in the process: railing lines of cocaine with assistants, camping out in pool houses, charging cheeseburgers and beers to strangers’ beach club accounts, and pocketing sunglasses and cash.
“In many ways, she's her biggest antagonist and has this impulse towards self-sabotage. Even though at the same time, she's in some ways extremely controlled,” Cline says. “What is it in her that wants to scratch the painting or follow this impulse, even though it's going to make things worse? I wanted there to be this sense of: minute by minute there's this survival impulse.
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