Thy Neighbor

Norah Vincent's first two books--the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Self-Made Man</i> and <i>Voluntary Madness</i>--were masterworks of immersion journalism. Now Vincent unleashes her considerable talents in a spellbinding novel that's as provocative and absorbing as her acclaimed nonfiction.<p> Since his parents' violent deaths thirteen years ago Nick Walsh has been living alone in his childhood home drinking drugging and debauching himself into oblivion. Deranged by his relentless sorrow he begins spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones. As he observes all the strange sad and terrifying things that people do when they think no one is watching Nick begins to unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.</p>