A Good Neighborhood A Novel

Therese Anne Fowler, Ella Turenne

eAudio - 2020

"A feast of a read... 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 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 histo...ric 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... more