A good neighborhood : a novel
In 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--a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter--raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two 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 heartrending love in a story that's as provocative as it is powerful.
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Neighbors > Fiction. Neighborhoods > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Love > Fiction. Racially mixed families > Fiction. North Carolina > Fiction. |
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Domestic fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781250237279
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Physical Description
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viii, 311 pages ; 25 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.