In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a
Scandal, The New Neighbor is "a chilling page-turner" (People) with
"simple, elegant language" (The New York Times Book Review) about an
old woman's curiosity turned into a dangerous obsession as she becomes
involved in her mysterious new neighbor's complicated life.
How much can you really know about the woman next door?
Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content hiding from the world. Stoic
and independent, she rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she
lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her
company--until she spots a woman who's moved into the long-empty house
across the pond.
Her neighbor, Jennifer Young, is also looking to hide. On the run from
her old life, she and her four-year-old son, Milo, have moved to a quiet
town where no one from her past can find her.
In Jennifer, Margaret sees both a potential companion for her loneliness
and a mystery to be solved. She thinks if she says the right thing,
tells the right story, Jennifer will open up, but Jennifer refuses to
talk about herself, her son, his missing father, or her past.
Frustrated, Margaret crosses more and more boundaries in pursuit of the
truth, threatening to unravel the new life Jennifer has so painstakingly
created--and reveal some secrets of her own...
From the critically acclaimed author of The History of Us and The
Myth of You and Me, The New Neighbor is "a promising exploration of the
secrets we all carry and our refusal to forgive ourselves" (Publishers
Weekly).
