Book: A Good Neighborhood
Author: Therese Anne Fowler
Pages: 320
This is my 51st book for the year
This is the story of two families who live in the nice neighborhood of Oak Knoll in North Carolina. Xavier - a young boy with a very promising future as a musician, a scholarship to a prestigous school, and his mother live in an old house with a beautiful tree. All is fine until the Whitman family builds a huge house and moves in next door. The house build destroys the roots of the fine tree and what transpires because of it leads both families down a path neither saw coming.
The story asks what it is like to live by people who are different than you. What is it like to be a good neighbor even when you don't see things the same way? How can people coexist that might not necessarily ever be friends?
This was not a great book. There were a lot of stereotypes in the book and the attraction of the step father to the step daughter was uncomfortable for me. Took away from the story. There wasn't a lot of character development. I never really felt for any of the characters one way or the other.
Skip it
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