num_pages: 352
description: Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning...Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block--her neighbor Theo.But Sydney and Theo's deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other--or themselves--long enough to find out before they too disappear?Featured in Parade Essence Bustle Popsugar Elle Shondaland Marie Claire Buzzfeed Entertainment Weekly Good Housekeeping Brit  Co Real Simple Lit Hub Crime Reads Blavity Ms. Magazine Hello Giggles The New York Times Town &amp; Country Newsweek New York Post Refinery29 Woman's World Washington Post the Skimm Book Riot Bookish Huffington Post and more!
language: English
title: When No One Is Watching
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks