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  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781913689308
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 312
  • RRP: $37.99

Neighbor George



A lonely young woman and a mysterious man meet in a northern California landscape populated by poets, New Agers, stoners, and dropouts.

Do you know the language of the birds?

Summer, 1979: A lonely young woman housesitting for her aunt and uncle in an isolated bohemian enclave finds troubling reminders of a past family tragedy surfacing in odd and unsettling ways. When a mysterious man moves in next door, Dovey hopes for a romance like the ones in the novels she secretly devours. But a dark truth hidden since childhood erupts shockingly in a violent otherworldly intrusion, catapulting her into a desperate struggle for her life and sanity.

Set in a haunted northern California landscape populated by poets, New Agers, stoners, and burnouts, Neighbor George is a deeply atmospheric story of psychological horror enacted in the liminal space where the natural collides with the supernatural.

  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781913689308
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 312
  • RRP: $37.99