A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Bern

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

This first novel explores the dark tensions beneath the suburban facade. Certainly the specifically literary pleasures of this book are many.

But I think ''A Crime in the Neighborhood'' feels familiar mainly because so much of it feels true.

Although the cruelties that generations can inflict on each other may be freshly rendered here, we can all recognize them far too well.- New York Times

10-year-old Marsha is in turmoil following the collapse of her parents' marriage, and the brutal murder of a local boy.

When the shy bachelor from next door begins to take an interest in Marsha's mother, Marsha is drawn into a cruel spiral of events that quickly spins out of control.

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