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Zusatztext Fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere need to read Therese Anne Fowler's A Good Neighbourhood Informationen zum Autor THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, A Well-Behaved Woman and A Good Neighbourhood . Raised in the Midwest, she moved to North Carolina in 1995. She holds a BA in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Klappentext A Good Neighbourhood explores how class! race and star-crossed love can change two families's lives forever! Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng!'A feast of a read: compelling! heartbreaking! and inevitable! I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting! Yes! it's that good!' Jodi PicoultIn Oak Knoll! a tight-knit North Carolina neighbourhood! professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son! All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money! ambition! and a secretly troubled teenage daughter!With little in common except a property line! these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard! But as they fight! they fail to notice that there is a romance blossoming between their two teenagers! A romance that will challenge the carefully constructed concepts of class and race in this small community! A romance that might cause everything to shatter!!!Praise for A Good Neighbourhood:'Compelling! complicated! timely! and smart ! ! ! a full-hearted! unflinching indictment of a broken system and in so doing tells a story hard to put down and hard to forget!' Laurie Frankel! bestselling author of This is How it Always Is 'This is a story that will stick with you for a long time!' Emily Giffin! #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Vorwort A provocative novel about class, race and star-crossed love in modern America from New York Times bestselling author Therese Anne Fowler that implicates us all in its damning, heart-wrenching conclusion. Zusammenfassung THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Neighbourhood explores how class, race and star-crossed love will change two families' lives forever. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Jodi Picoult. 'A feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it's that good.' Jodi Picoult 'There's no doubting this novel's power' Daily Mail In Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighbourhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenage daughter. With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard. But as they fight, they fail to notice that there is a romance blossoming between their two teenagers. A romance that will challenge the carefully constructed concepts of class and race in this small community. A romance that might cause everything to shatter... Praise for A Good Neighbourhood... ' Compelling, complicated, timely, and smart . . . hard to put down and hard to forget' LAURIE FRANKEL, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS ' This is a story that will stick with you for a long time' EMILY GIFFIN, NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ...
