A Good Neighborhood
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020
"A provocative, absorbing read." ― People
“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” ―Jodi Picoult, #1New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Thingsand A Spark…
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Fowler expertly presents an upper-scale neighbourhood as ideal. No problems here, no poverty, no conflict, no prejudice. Really? We instinctively know better.
Under that idealistic image, judgments seethe, racism raises its ugly head, and from the first chapter, we know that someone will die—but who? Fowler keeps us guessing, and we fear that the most innocent will bear the brunt of the delusion that all is well in this embodiment of the “American dream” life.
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