A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne FowlerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book!! Wow. This will most certainly end up in my Top 10 for the year!
This is a heart-wrenching story about two families who are backdoor neighbors in a wonderful neighborhood. One of the families is a black, woman professor at the local college who is an ecologist and loves to maintain her yard due to her love for plants and trees and the wildlife they attract. Her son, who is biracial, is a brilliant young man who is a senior in high school and talented classical guitarist. He is leaving within weeks to go to university for a degree in music. Then the new, white neighbors move in and there is the possibility of befriending these neighbors, who happen to have a teenage daughter who is slightly younger, but also academically gifted herself.
The story is like a retelling of Romeo and Juliet with the possible teenage love story but also with two families who each carry their own baggage.
The voice throughout the story is unique, in that it is told as though there is a narrator taking the reader through the events as a reporter would take the public through a news story. This was an interesting method for telling the overall story and then the back story of each character.
I highly recommend this book if you enjoy controversy and family sagas. The writing is superb and both the plot and character details were engaging throughout.
Loved it!
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