A Good Neighborhood tells the story of two very different families living next door to one another in Oak Knoll, a "good" neighborhood in North Carolina. Valerie Alston-Holt is a widow and a professor of ecology raising her biracial teenage son on her own. All is peaceful until the Whitman family moves next door. The two families become at odds with one another initially over the treatment of a historic Oaktree and soon after over the budding romantic relationship between their teenage children.
For the first half of this book, I really, really, really enjoyed it. Fowler did an amazing job with the character development of each of the main characters in the novel. The last quarter of the book took a wild turn that had me reeling, and yet... the ending fell short. In fact, I couldn't have been more upset, disturbed, or let down by the ending. I felt as though this book was so strong and compelling and the ending was much too abrupt and unsatisfying.
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