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Oct 06, 2009
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Elizabeth Noble, author of "The Reading Group" and several other well received books, is back with another winner. "The Girl Next Door" involves an ensemble cast and seems very much like a reasonably intelligent soap opera. We get to see bits of the lives of several people in one building in Manhattan--relationships begin and end and have everything in between happen to them as well. There is birth and death, love and hate, fear and joy. This isn't a fluff read--Noble weaves some pretty powerful
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This looks a little "voyeuristic" since it is told from the viewpoints of various residents in an Upper East Side apartment building--not that there's anythingn wrong with that. I don't think I like books told from multiple viewpoints but find myself drawn to them for some reason.
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