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Abra Ahren's new neighborhood seems like an average American small town, but her discovery of the grotesque secrets that lie beneath the white picket-fence exterior make her more reluctant to welcome her neighbors. Original.From Publishers WeeklyIn books like Nightmare and Borderland, Epperson has shown a talent for non-supernatural horror that is involving and often psychologically insightful. Here, she turns that talent toward painting a macabre picture of an all-American neighborhood seen mostly from the perspective of Abra Ahrens, a nurse assigned to home-care for Thomas Conlan. Abra is told that Conlan has AIDS, but he really has smallpox-deadly, highly communicable and supposedly eradicated. And that's just the beginning. Abra's new neighbors include Zane Campbell, who has retired from police work after being shot in the face and now handcrafts prosthetic eyes; the family of missing schoolgirl Cindy Melo; and Craig Peterwell, who collects parrots and cockatoos and expresses his dissatisfaction with life by breaking his wife's limbs with a two-by-four. Although the smallpox plot line is underutilized, the multiple threads concerning Conlan's neighbors-and Abra's mother, psycho

Who reads The Neighborhood?

Author

Epperson, S. K.

Publisher

Dutton Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585299013

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.85 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13