Our Next-Door Neighbors

The only problem that clouds Lucien and Silvia Wades calm comfortable life is that Lucien wants children and Silvia does not. When the wild Polydore children-Ptolemy Pythagoras Emerald Demetrius and Diogenes-move in next door however chaos follows and the Wades each reconsider their position. In Our Next-Door Neighbors Michigan author Belle K. Maniates hilariously explores middle-class life in early twentieth-century America and questions what the typical American family should look like.