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Leah Stewart is the critically acclaimed author of The History of Us, Husband and Wife, The Myth of You and Me, and Body of a Girl. She received her BA from Vanderbilt University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. The recipient of a Sachs Fund Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship, she teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati and lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two children.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stewart, Leah, 1973–
The new neighbor / Leah Stewart.—First Touchstone hardcover edition.
pages ; cm
“A Touchstone Book.”
I. Title.
PS3569.T465258N49 2015
813’.54—dc23
2014041617
ISBN 978-1-5011-0351-3
ISBN 978-1-5011-0353-7 (ebook)
Contents
Jennifer
Signs of Life
The Miraculous Now
Snoop
Noise
Don’t Leave Me
Trapdoor
Horrible Deeds
In the Beginning
Subterfuge
Let Ugly Be
Clues
Ghosts
Fairy Tales
Please Like Me
Lucky You
The Lonely Woods
Ticktock
Please Don’t Tell
Nobody Loves Me
In the End
Margaret
The Ordinary Extraordinary
Carrasco
Blood on My Hands
Magic
Two Girls
Girls’ Night
I Think I’ll Go
The Ones We Love
Like Apologies
See Rock City
The List of Sins
Offerings
Zoe
Life Story
What People Do
Mountains
Wrong Number
What Zoe Did
Orphan
Step One
The Ordinary
The Unsolvable
What Jennifer Did
The Lives I’ve Saved
Acknowledgments
About the Author