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Good Neighbors
Sarah Langan
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2021-02-02
主題
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
198217143X
9781982171438
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vy8SEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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“
A modern-day
Crucible….
Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of
The Last Mrs. Parrish
“Sarah Langan is a phenomenal talent with a wicked sense of wry humor.
Good Neighbors
knocked me out. Like Shirley Jackson, Langan’s work blends a bleak streak with an underlying sense of the humane that wrung my heart.” —Victor LaValle, author of
The Changeling
Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb
—
pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.
Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world.
Arlo Wilde, a gruff has-been rock star who’s got nothing to show for his fame but track marks, is always two steps behind the other dads. His wife, beautiful ex-pageant queen Gertie, feels socially ostracized and adrift. Spunky preteen Julie curses like a sailor and her kid brother Larry is called “Robot Boy” by the kids on the block.
Their next-door neighbor and Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder
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a lonely community college professor repressing her own dark past
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welcomes Gertie and family into the fold. Then, during one spritzer-fueled summer evening, the new best friends share too much, too soon.
As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes that spins out of control. Suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood.
A riveting and ruthless portrayal of American suburbia,
Good Neighbors
excavates the perils and betrayals of motherhood and friendships and the dangerous clash between social hierarchy, childhood trauma, and fear.