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A good neighbourhood

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Description A Good Neighbourhood explores how class, race and star-crossed love can change two families's lives forever, Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng,<br /></br><br /></br>'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<br /></br><br /></br>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,<br /></br><br /></br>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, <br /></br><br /></br>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,,,<br /></br><br /></br>Praise for A Good Neighbourhood:<br /></br><br /></br>'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 <br /></br><br /></br>'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
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  • ISBN: 9781472269355 (BC)

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