--- product_id: 329277624 title: "Titan Books Ltd Good Neighbours" price: "S/.99" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/329277624-titan-books-ltd-good-neighbours store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # Titan Books Ltd Good Neighbours **Price:** S/.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Titan Books Ltd Good Neighbours - **How much does it cost?** S/.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/329277624-titan-books-ltd-good-neighbours) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "Insanely creepy, wildly entertaining and razor-sharp" Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl "I loved [Good Neighbours] so much, every word, every page, every painful surprise. I've been screaming the title to all who will listen." - Sarah Jessica Parker A sudden tragedy pits neighbour against neighbour and puts one family in terrible danger. Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But when the Wilde family moves in, they trigger their neighbours' worst fears. Arlo and Gertie and their weird kids don't fit with the way Maple Street sees itself. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and neighbourhood Queen Bee Rhea's daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mother's word against the other's in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood. A riveting and ruthless portrayal of suburbia, Good Neighbours excavates the perils and betrayals of motherhood and friendships and the dangerous clash between social hierarchy, childhood trauma, and fear. Review: Welcome back Sarah Langan! - After reading her first three novels I've been waiting and waiting for another one. Well, it was worth the wait! Sarah isn't afraid to dig deep into what hides behind neighbor's smiles and what goes on behind closed doors. The children in this novel are the real adults. They can see the rottenness festering in their parents but are unable to do anything about it and so get swept along in all the murk. A sinkhole that appears suddenly in a park represents a collapsing facade of community. This novel also tackles global warming and it's effects. It takes place several years in the future when things have gotten much hotter, probably contributing to some of the insanity. BE WARNED: It contains some child abuse. Review: A Future Classic - People are always wondering what currently under-appreciated book will someday become a classic. Good Neighbors has all the potential to become the novel all students are assigned to understand our hyper-tribal, polarized social landscape: It is a story with layers upon layers of meaning; its characters are complex, have depth, and are representative for groups/values/cultures within society; it has a unique message that takes introspection on the part of the reader in order to digest; its themes are nuanced, open-ended, and have the ability to facilitate deep discussions about human nature; it does not fit with any typical genre, eschewing all tropes and expectations; and the plot is wicked fun, entertaining, and produce intense, oscillating emotions, going from hilarious to slit-your-wrist-depressing in the matter of a page. Giving away too much of the plot would not only ruin the flow of it, but the summaries wouldn’t even make sense without all the wonderful characterization and context Langan gives. Instead, I’ll explain what reading it *feels* like before moving on to touch on its themes: Imagine the writers of South Park modernizing Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, with their trademark dark humor and heavily thematic writing used to illuminate the absurdities of our culture, melding their flavor with Jackson’s bleak and disturbing portrayal of the evil groups are capable of. Give said group the power of Big Brother in 1984 without even needing the technology, but instead using natural human behavior to do the government’s dirty work. Then grab Mac and Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and cast them as 2 of the leading protagonists (Gertie and Arlo) and face them off against one of the most complicated villains I’ve ever read, Rhea Schroeder. Then give it some dashes of cult flavoring from Folk Horror mixed into a Stepford Wives suburban ut/dystopia. Take all of these elements and wind them up, slowly ratcheting up the tension until it all snaps, and you have something like Good Neighbors. When it comes to its themes, It doesn’t just “touch” on them, either, inserting them to stroke the critic/readers ego a bit. It submerges you in its ethical quandaries and trepidatious prognoses. This will not be a book that reaffirms your beliefs. It will force you to confront if you’d be any different from the characters. It’s about what we are capable of for acceptance and a place in our tribes. Even worse than what we do to remain in our social strata is what we are capable of when we no longer belong to one, but instead become isolated. During the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China, the power of the group was used to surveil and self-enforce dogma -- Langan understands these social dynamics and brilliantly depicts this in action. If there is no big government or corporate entity taking away your liberties, is enforcement still censorship/surveillance/authoritarian? It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves lately, since recent cultural trends have had more of a chilling effect on speech/expression than government regulators could ever dream of. “Modern culture is an inverse panopticon. Not a drunk father, but a vigilant mother. The masses elect a single person to the hot seat for their five minutes of fame. We, the periphery, are the judges and jury. Because we’re separated (like prisoners, we can’t connect to each other through these impossible walls), we’ve no option but to connect via the sacrificial lamb we’ve placed dead center. Even when we privately dispute the censure or praise we heap upon them, publicly, we echo popular sentiment. To avoid loneliness, we become a single, unthinking mass. And yet, the mother and father both reveal their very limited ability to connect. The proverbial child cannot attach. We participate in this mass identity, but it does not serve us. Our language is reduced to a series of agreed-upon signs reflecting not nuance, but binaries: like/dislike; good/bad; yes/no. We are even more lonely for the failure of it…” ## Features - Item Trademark: TITAN BOOKS LTD - manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd - Item Weight: grams, pounds, 0.6569775407600, 298.00 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #149,349 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,512 in Action & Adventure Fiction #3,963 in Thrillers & Suspense | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 385 Reviews | ## Images ![Titan Books Ltd Good Neighbours - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91QEoud48zS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Welcome back Sarah Langan! *by J***B on 20 February 2021* After reading her first three novels I've been waiting and waiting for another one. Well, it was worth the wait! Sarah isn't afraid to dig deep into what hides behind neighbor's smiles and what goes on behind closed doors. The children in this novel are the real adults. They can see the rottenness festering in their parents but are unable to do anything about it and so get swept along in all the murk. A sinkhole that appears suddenly in a park represents a collapsing facade of community. This novel also tackles global warming and it's effects. It takes place several years in the future when things have gotten much hotter, probably contributing to some of the insanity. BE WARNED: It contains some child abuse. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Future Classic *by K***8 on 20 June 2022* People are always wondering what currently under-appreciated book will someday become a classic. Good Neighbors has all the potential to become the novel all students are assigned to understand our hyper-tribal, polarized social landscape: It is a story with layers upon layers of meaning; its characters are complex, have depth, and are representative for groups/values/cultures within society; it has a unique message that takes introspection on the part of the reader in order to digest; its themes are nuanced, open-ended, and have the ability to facilitate deep discussions about human nature; it does not fit with any typical genre, eschewing all tropes and expectations; and the plot is wicked fun, entertaining, and produce intense, oscillating emotions, going from hilarious to slit-your-wrist-depressing in the matter of a page. Giving away too much of the plot would not only ruin the flow of it, but the summaries wouldn’t even make sense without all the wonderful characterization and context Langan gives. Instead, I’ll explain what reading it *feels* like before moving on to touch on its themes: Imagine the writers of South Park modernizing Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, with their trademark dark humor and heavily thematic writing used to illuminate the absurdities of our culture, melding their flavor with Jackson’s bleak and disturbing portrayal of the evil groups are capable of. Give said group the power of Big Brother in 1984 without even needing the technology, but instead using natural human behavior to do the government’s dirty work. Then grab Mac and Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and cast them as 2 of the leading protagonists (Gertie and Arlo) and face them off against one of the most complicated villains I’ve ever read, Rhea Schroeder. Then give it some dashes of cult flavoring from Folk Horror mixed into a Stepford Wives suburban ut/dystopia. Take all of these elements and wind them up, slowly ratcheting up the tension until it all snaps, and you have something like Good Neighbors. When it comes to its themes, It doesn’t just “touch” on them, either, inserting them to stroke the critic/readers ego a bit. It submerges you in its ethical quandaries and trepidatious prognoses. This will not be a book that reaffirms your beliefs. It will force you to confront if you’d be any different from the characters. It’s about what we are capable of for acceptance and a place in our tribes. Even worse than what we do to remain in our social strata is what we are capable of when we no longer belong to one, but instead become isolated. During the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China, the power of the group was used to surveil and self-enforce dogma -- Langan understands these social dynamics and brilliantly depicts this in action. If there is no big government or corporate entity taking away your liberties, is enforcement still censorship/surveillance/authoritarian? It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves lately, since recent cultural trends have had more of a chilling effect on speech/expression than government regulators could ever dream of. “Modern culture is an inverse panopticon. Not a drunk father, but a vigilant mother. The masses elect a single person to the hot seat for their five minutes of fame. We, the periphery, are the judges and jury. Because we’re separated (like prisoners, we can’t connect to each other through these impossible walls), we’ve no option but to connect via the sacrificial lamb we’ve placed dead center. Even when we privately dispute the censure or praise we heap upon them, publicly, we echo popular sentiment. To avoid loneliness, we become a single, unthinking mass. And yet, the mother and father both reveal their very limited ability to connect. The proverbial child cannot attach. We participate in this mass identity, but it does not serve us. Our language is reduced to a series of agreed-upon signs reflecting not nuance, but binaries: like/dislike; good/bad; yes/no. We are even more lonely for the failure of it…” ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A dark story - not a light-hearted read *by L***N on 2 May 2022* A few days after finishing this book, and I'm still not too sure about what to make of it. At first I was tempted to leave it, as the 'Americanisms' were a little too confusing. However, returning to it, the narrative picked up pace, and kept me turning the pages. At times I felt as if this book had been written for a screen adaptation, and perhaps TV / film would work well, better than a book. The characters of the Wildes, and Rhea Schroeder were well described, but the other characters were reduced to bit parts. The dialogue between the children at times seemed too advanced, and the idea that all of them could slip out of their houses unnoticed towards the end of the book, especially given the misguided concerns of the parents at the time was unrealistic. The repeated references to 'candy apple scent' started to grate after a while, and seemed unnecessary. However, this book was a page turner, and attempted to explore the motivations of individuals who are keen to hold up a facade at all costs. 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