Good neighbors
Subtitle: a novel
By: Joanne Serling
Edition: First hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781455541911
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Neighbors; Married people; Families; Fiction
Description: "A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances. In an idyllic suburb, four young families quickly form a neighborhood clique, their friendships based on little more than the ages of their children and a shared sense of camaraderie. When one of the couples, Paige and Gene Edwards, adopt a four-year-old girl from Russia, the group's loyalty and morality is soon called into question. Are the Edwards unkind to their new daughter? Or is she a difficult child with hidden destructive tendencies? As the seams of the group friendship slowly unravel, neighbor Nicole Westerhof finds herself drawn further into the life of the adopted girl, forcing Nicole to re-examine the deceptive nature of her own family ties, and her complicity in the events unfolding around her"--