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A Good Neighborhood
by Therese Anne Fowler
This book was interesting.
It starts off kind of slow and builds throughout the book until you end up in a high speed car chase.
It discusses many topics like race, poverty, and class in a upper-middle class neighborhood in North Carolina. The author really delves into how one move or one choice can snowball and affect so many different aspects of life in so many different ways that nobody could really predict.
This becomes a hard book to read and isn't enjoyable- and it shouldn't be. But it is real life and heartbreaking. It made me angry in a good way.
The symbolism in this book is subtle yet obvious. The tree (at the root of the story) symbolizes life, and the encroaching neighbor--who is slowly killing off the tree--is everything that is wrong with society today.
I also really liked the narrator being someone in the neighborhood. This "gives the feeling that they are part of this community, but we never know who they are. The perspective felt eerie, like the “we” whoever they might be, were invading the privacy of these two families, of the thoughts and feelings of these characters."
It starts off kind of slow and builds throughout the book until you end up in a high speed car chase.
It discusses many topics like race, poverty, and class in a upper-middle class neighborhood in North Carolina. The author really delves into how one move or one choice can snowball and affect so many different aspects of life in so many different ways that nobody could really predict.
This becomes a hard book to read and isn't enjoyable- and it shouldn't be. But it is real life and heartbreaking. It made me angry in a good way.
The symbolism in this book is subtle yet obvious. The tree (at the root of the story) symbolizes life, and the encroaching neighbor--who is slowly killing off the tree--is everything that is wrong with society today.
I also really liked the narrator being someone in the neighborhood. This "gives the feeling that they are part of this community, but we never know who they are. The perspective felt eerie, like the “we” whoever they might be, were invading the privacy of these two families, of the thoughts and feelings of these characters."