“A Good Neigborhood” by Therese Anne Fowler
Hello Everyone,
I just finished reading A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler. The genre for this novel is Adult Contemporary Fiction, meaning it is a made up story that takes place in today’s day and age with adult themes.
Let’s sum up the story: Valerie Alston-Holt, an African American woman, and her bi-racial son Xavier live in a small southern community called Oak Knoll. They have a big oak tree in their backyard that symbolizes so much to Valerie, a forestry and ecology professor. New neighbors by the family name of Whitman move onto the plot behind her house and they find themselves at odds after a couple of days of neighborly introductions. Their disagreements get worse when Xavier and the teenage daughter of Julia Whitman find themselves in a “real life” Romeo and Juliet situation. What will happen to the families? What will happen to them and their relationship?
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