A Good Neighborhood

The New York Times– bestselling novel of race, class, divided neighbors and tragic love: “a provocative, absorbing read” ( People ). Oak Knoll, North Carolina, has been the ideal community for Valerie Alston-Holt, a professor of forestry and ecology, to raise her gifted biracial son, Xavier. But their tranquil home is upended when the nouveau riche Whitman family razes the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With nothing in common but a property line, these two families qu