INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPRs Best Books of 2020A provocative, absorbing read. -- People A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, its that good. --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light 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, whos 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 Valeries yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. Therese Anne Fowlers 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 dont see eye to eye?--as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story thats as provocative as it is powerful.About author(s):THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and A Well-Behaved Woman. 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.