Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the efforts to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised. In the novel, Sydney Green hopes to create a walking tour that celebrates the Black history of her Brooklyn community, but she’s distracted by the strange disappearances of her neighbors and friends. Alyssa Cole’s tale of gentrification in a Brooklyn neighbourhood has been referred to as Rear Window meets Get Out and that is. If you’re looking to kick off the start of the spooky season with a thriller, you can’t go wrong with Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching. To preserve the past, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour: ?Displaced: A People?s History of Brooklyn,? and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block ? her neighbor Theo.But Sydney and Theo?s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Highly recommended for fans of Jordan Peele’s movies, When No One is Watching is a thriller that is fascinating, discomforting, exciting, unflinching, and honestly the list of adjectives could go on and on. FOR SALE signs are popping up everywhere, and the neighbors she?s known all her life are disappearing. DESCRIPTION BOOK : Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning?Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but the neighborhood she loves is being erased before her very eyes.
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