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A Good Neighborhood

A Novel

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A Good Neighborhood

De: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrado por: Ella Turenne
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“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)

©2020 Therese Anne Fowler (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
Ficción Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Mayoría de Edad Vida Familiar Apasionante emocionalmente Drama Sincero
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"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

Timely Social Issues • Touching Love Story • Collective Narrator Voice • Beautiful Writing • Layered Storytelling
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This book deals with very heavy subject matter that may well be true. It was left in an unchanged, deeply devastating way. Clearly there is no hope for the world.

So, so sad

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Therese Anne Fowler is one of the most intelligent authors! She had woven so many reflections of our society and questions throughout this entire book. The characters are so real I feel like I could drive downtown Raleigh and meet them. The story peels away like an onion with so many captivating layers. It was a book I didn’t want to put down!
May we each learn enough to do our own part to change what is wrong with our society!

Such a brilliant author!

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Story was interesting- kind of a Romeo and Juliet for the modern times. But honestly the audio performance was very distracting. The accents were off and some words were mispronounced. Plus it felt like it was being read very slowly.

Audio performance wasn’t great

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Loved it although sad. Statement of our times and very tough world and todays lack of progress toward social justice.

Great story

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Loved it beginning to end, can't stop screaming in the pillow!!!! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

outstanding!

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This story, while fiction, has so many elements of fact. I think I have felt every single emotion there is in listening to it. My heart breaks for every character except for Brad. May he rot in hell.

I am weeping!

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I didn’t feel like the ending when did it self to justice. You may not want to radon because there are spoilers here. I would’ve been more satisfied if the “bad neighbor” had been charged for his falsifying the initial charges. The DA had to have known at the point of the extortion attempt and the other lawsuit, that the entire situation at that point was straight out manipulation of the system. So the good old boy system remained in tact with only monetary damages.

The book starts out very slow and boring to listen to as it builds the story. However, It is worth trudging through to the end.

Slow Start, Tragic End

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The story was excellent. It shows a view in our country that requires change.

Thought provoking

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It was a great story that made you feel all the feels. Great narrator on this one!

Loved it!

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Beautiful writing and such a real topic. Very well done! I couldn’t stop listening to

Cried and cried

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