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Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content hiding from the world. Stoic and independent, she rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company, that is, until she spots a woman who's moved into the long-empty house across the pond.
Jennifer Young is also looking to hide. On the run from her old life, she and her four-year-old son Milo have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her.
In Jennifer, Margaret sees both a potential companion in her loneliness and a mystery to be solved. But Jennifer refuses to talk about herself, her son, his missing father, or her past. Frustrated, Margaret crosses more and more boundaries in pursuit of the truth, threatening to unravel the new life Jennifer has so painstakingly created-and reveal some secrets of her own.
Jennifer Young is also looking to hide. On the run from her old life, she and her four-year-old son Milo have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her.
In Jennifer, Margaret sees both a potential companion in her loneliness and a mystery to be solved. But Jennifer refuses to talk about herself, her son, his missing father, or her past. Frustrated, Margaret crosses more and more boundaries in pursuit of the truth, threatening to unravel the new life Jennifer has so painstakingly created-and reveal some secrets of her own.
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“In simple, elegant language, Leah Stewart draws us to a little pond hidden away in the mountains of Tennessee...[and] never relaxes her tight focus on these complex characters.”—New York Times Book Review
“A chilling page-turner.”—People (People Picks)
“After only a few pages into Leah Stewart's The New Neighbor, the shrewd sharp voice of one of its main characters kept me reading.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
"One of the protagonists of Leah Stewart's new novel, The New Neighbor, reads mystery novels, and only mystery novels, but she is a snob about them: she only wants to read the best. Well, she would love, love, love The New Neighbor, which is as tense and as tough-minded and as ingeniously structured as our best mystery novels, and our best literary novels, too. A major new book by one of our most psychologically astute writers." (Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World)
“Leah Stewart skillfully captures conversational nuance and family alienation.”—The Charlotte Observer
“Readers who like an unhurried pace, an element of mystery, and plenty of symbolism will be satisfied as Stewart brings her tale to a surprising conclusion.”—Library Journal
“A quiet standout...[Stewart] choreographs a near-perfect perfect psychological dance here, her Jennifer and Margaret pulsing with life and her storyline, a la ‘Rear Window,’ keeps us guessing to the end.”--Buffalo News
“The writing is beautiful, and [Leah Stewart] does an impressive job of giving the reader a sense of place.”--Mystery Scene
“Stewart deftly writes about the nuances of friendship and motherhood, as well as the past’s unpleasant ability to take over the present.”--BookPage
“A promising exploration of the secrets we all carry and our refusal to forgive ourselves.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Stewart's prose is remarkable for its well-shaped sentences and nonshowy but sharp observations. Quietly incisive.” (Kirkus Reviews)
"Keenly engrossing and multilayered, this mystery and literary-fiction hybrid will elicit rich book-group discussions." (Booklist)
“A chilling page-turner.”—People (People Picks)
“After only a few pages into Leah Stewart's The New Neighbor, the shrewd sharp voice of one of its main characters kept me reading.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
"One of the protagonists of Leah Stewart's new novel, The New Neighbor, reads mystery novels, and only mystery novels, but she is a snob about them: she only wants to read the best. Well, she would love, love, love The New Neighbor, which is as tense and as tough-minded and as ingeniously structured as our best mystery novels, and our best literary novels, too. A major new book by one of our most psychologically astute writers." (Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World)
“Leah Stewart skillfully captures conversational nuance and family alienation.”—The Charlotte Observer
“Readers who like an unhurried pace, an element of mystery, and plenty of symbolism will be satisfied as Stewart brings her tale to a surprising conclusion.”—Library Journal
“A quiet standout...[Stewart] choreographs a near-perfect perfect psychological dance here, her Jennifer and Margaret pulsing with life and her storyline, a la ‘Rear Window,’ keeps us guessing to the end.”--Buffalo News
“The writing is beautiful, and [Leah Stewart] does an impressive job of giving the reader a sense of place.”--Mystery Scene
“Stewart deftly writes about the nuances of friendship and motherhood, as well as the past’s unpleasant ability to take over the present.”--BookPage
“A promising exploration of the secrets we all carry and our refusal to forgive ourselves.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Stewart's prose is remarkable for its well-shaped sentences and nonshowy but sharp observations. Quietly incisive.” (Kirkus Reviews)
"Keenly engrossing and multilayered, this mystery and literary-fiction hybrid will elicit rich book-group discussions." (Booklist)
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1501103512
- ISBN 13 9781501103513
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