Good neighbors
By: Ryan David Jahn
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780143118961
Subjects: Murder; Crime prevention; Citizen participation; Fiction
Description: At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help. Unfolding over the course of two hours, "Good Neighbors" is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child and her husband, who will risk everything for her. Reveals a fascinating cross-section of American society in expertly interlocking plotlines.