
A Good Neighborhood
A Novel
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Ella Turenne
“A feast of a read.... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” (Jodi Picoult, number one New York Times best-selling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of LightIn Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall.)
All is well until the Whitmans - an apparently traditional family with new money and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter - raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace.
With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: First, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today - what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye? - as it explores the effects of class, race, and heart-rending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press “While Faulkner’s story veers off into the traditional grotesquerie of Southern Gothic literature, Fowler’s culminates with injustices that are painfully easy to imagine because they continue to be a part of our contemporary lived experience.” (Washington Post)
“A timely story about what happens when we fail to consider how our actions affect others and the tragedy that can befall us if we can’t coexist with those whose values are different from our own.” (Atlanta Journal)
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Critic reviews
"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." (Christina Baker Kline, number one New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train)
"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, number one New York Times best-selling author of All We Ever Wanted)

Editor's Pick
Do good fences make good neighbors?
"Nothing can stop the budding romance between Xavier Alston-Holt and his new neighbor, Juniper Whitman. Not the fence between their backyards, not the lawsuit Xavier’s mother files against the Whitmans because of her beloved dying oak tree, and not the purity vow Juniper took to appease her mom and stepdad. With these two teenagers on a crash course toward what I can only describe as a heartbreaking end, Therese Anne Fowler nimbly negotiates issues of race, class, sexual violence, and environmental destruction in this timely call to action. The narration is just as heartfelt. Ella Turenne brings the diverse North Carolina neighborhood to life, empathetically conjuring nuanced characters you won’t soon forget."
—Margaret H., Audible Editor
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outstanding!
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