A Good Neighborhood (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)

A Good Neighborhood (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)

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  • Author：Therese Anne Fowler
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Praise for Therese Anne Fowler:

“Therese Anne Fowler has taken the ingredients of racism, justice, and conservative religion and has concocted a feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light

"A provocative, timely page-turner about the crucial issues of our time. I gulped it down, and the stunning conclusion left me both heartbroken and hopeful.” —Meg Waite Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London

"A gripping modern morality tale...Familiar elements - two families, two young lovers, a legal dispute - frame a story that feels both classic and inevitable. But Fowler makes the book her own with smart dialogue, compelling characters and a communal “we” narrator that implicates us all in the wrenching conclusion." —Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics

"A Good Neighborhood is my favorite kind of novel — compelling, complicated, timely, and smart. With great humanity, Therese Anne Fowler imparts a full-hearted, unflinching indictment of a broken system and in so doing tells a story hard to put down and hard to forget." —Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of This is How it Always Is

"Compelling and captivating, A Good Neighborhood left me speechless yet wanting to discuss. This is a story that will stick with you for a long time." —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted

"Nothing short of mesmerizing." —Kirkus, on A Well-Behaved Woman (starred review)

"Genius....Fowler's exploration of the way powerful women are simultaneously devalued and rewarded resonates powerfully." —Publishers Weekly, on A Well-Behaved Woman (starred review)

“Relentlessly paced, stylishly written, and perfectly timed, Therese Anne Fowler’s latest is a sharp, moving portrait of an American neighborhood on the brink of change. You’ll be thinking about A Good Neighborhood long after you've left it.”—Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train

From the Publisher

Reviews

DG_Reads ，

I received a complimentary copy of A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for the change to read and review! A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD begins with a neighborhood full of established families in a tight knit community complete with book clubs and get togethers. Valerie Alston-Holt is a widowed mom who is passionate about the environment and especially the trees surrounding her home. Brad Whitman owns a successful HVAC company and made a decent windfall off of something he invented. He has a new mansion built on the lot behind Valerie’s home with all the luxuries which necessitates taking out all of the trees and skirting some rules which causes irrevocable harm to Valerie’s favorite trees. The families are incredibly different in terms of race and economic status and belief systems. On top of the tension between families over the issue of the tree, tensions flare when a relationship develops between Valerie’s son Xavier and Brad’s step-daughter Juniper. The situation quickly escalates and from the beginning we are let know that a tragedy is coming. This book! One of the biggest compliments I can pay it is that I was stuck in jury duty and this book managed to keep me fully engaged even in the midst of that less than comfortable situation! This book looks at racism and the ugliness of people that will have you mad and frustrated and concerned for the outcome. The story telling is very creative. In addition to getting chapters focusing on both families, there is also a point of view that comes from the community as a whole. From early on in the story this outside perspective tells us that things are building to a catastrophe. This voice speaks to the upset in the neighborhood as a whole with neighbors taking sides in the dispute. There is a sense that this voice knows more now than they did at the time and questions about how things might have gone differently if different facts were known. I really appreciated this added perspective and thought it worked really well in this narrative. I really highly recommend picking up A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD when it is released on March 10, 2020!

HollyLovesBooks4Us ，

This book!! Wow. This will most certainly end up in my Top 10 for the year! This is a heart-wrenching story about two families who are backdoor neighbors in a wonderful neighborhood. One of the families is a black, woman professor at the local college who is an ecologist and loves to maintain her yard due to her love for plants and trees and the wildlife they attract. Her son, who is biracial, is a brilliant young man who is a senior in high school and talented classical guitarist. He is leaving within weeks to go to university for a degree in music. Then the new, white neighbors move in and there is the possibility of befriending these neighbors, who happen to have a teenage daughter who is slightly younger, but also academically gifted herself. The story is like a retelling of Romeo and Juliet with the possible teenage love story but also with two families who each carry their own baggage. The voice throughout the story is unique, in that it is told as though there is a narrator taking the reader through the events as a reporter would take the public through a news story. This was an interesting method for telling the overall story and then the back story of each character. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy controversy and family sagas. The writing is superb and both the plot and character details were engaging throughout. Loved it! #AGoodNeighborhood #Netgalley #StMartinsPress #ThereseAnneFowler

Aqswr ，

Author Therese Anne Fowler has written a modern version of Romeo and Juliet with A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD. The tale is situated in modern North Carolina, in a neighborhood transitioning from middle class to McMansion, with all the transitional troubles that accompany those changes. But those aren’t really the issues at the heart of this compelling drama. Two teens from neighboring families that represent different outlooks find themselves increasingly attached, despite their parents’ disagreements. It isn’t likely to end well as readers are warned early in the book. This is a well-done re-working of an age-old tale, sure to delight almost every reader. I received my copy from the publisher through NetGalley.