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Thy neighbor

Norah Vincent

2012306 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Viking · ENGISBN 9780670023745
  • 2013306 pages · ENGISBN 9781101583784

Norah Vincent's first two books'the New York Times bestseller Self-Made Man and Voluntary Madness'were masterworks of immersion journalism. Now Vincent unleashes her considerable talents in a spellbinding novel that's as provocative and absorbing as her acclaimed nonfiction. Since his parents' violent deaths thirteen years ago, Nick Walsh has been living alone in his childhood home, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. Deranged by his relentless sorrow, he begins spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones. As he observes all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that people do when they think no one is watching, Nick begins to unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.

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Emotional toneUnflinching

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Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered
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