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9781250237279

STARRED REVIEW

A Good Neighborhood

Therese Anne Fowler’s novel finds trouble in paradise, mapping the divisions among people who think of themselves as “good.”

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Review of ‘A Good Neighborhood’

A contemporary North Carolina suburb might seem an unlikely setting for Shakespearean tragedy. But that’s exactly what unfolds in Therese Anne Fowler’s A Good Neighborhood, whose first paragraph hints at what’s coming: “Later this summer when the funeral takes place, the media will speculate boldly on who’s to blame.”

A loose reworking of Romeo and…

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