“Every time I start a book, I spend a lot of time considering what the best narrative perspective is going to be for that particular story,” Fowler says. I thought, okay then, that’s the book I have to write,” the author said in an interview on her website. “The seeds of A Good Neighborhood took root in my brain almost of their own accord, and grew like Jack’s beanstalk. I don’t think I knew that was my motivation at the time I just knew that I was compelled by these characters arising in my imagination.” “The constant bad news was really dismaying to me, and I needed to respond to my dismay, to present something about how we are backsliding in this country and turn it into a story. But everything changed when she took a close look at the state of our nation. She shared with Publisher’s Weekly that after finishing A Well-Behaved Woman, she intended to continue experimenting with providing new perspectives to controversial historical figures. Her latest novel is a leap from her previous biographical historical novels for which fans had come to know and love Fowler. Therese Anne Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of Z(recently adapted for television by Amazon Studios) and A Well-Behaved Woman(currently in development with Sony Pictures Television). Her brand-new contemporary novel, A Good Neighborhood, is rich with divisive issues such as race, class and religion, and is about an interracial romance nestled within a North Carolina community.
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