Where beauty lies, secrets are held...ugly ones.
Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren't helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-dayand all-bottleevent. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful, gated community of Maneless Grove.
However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol's opinion. She has no interest in the pushy Homeowners Association, their bizarrely detailed contract, or their never-ending microaggressions. But Alice simply attributes their pursuit to the community motto: Invest in a neighborly spirit...which only serves to irritate Sol more.
Suddenly, a number of strange occurrencesdoors and stairs disappearing, roots growing inside the housecause Sol to wonder if her social paranoia isn't built on something more sinister. Yet Sol's fears are dismissed as Alice embraces their new home and becomes increasingly worried instead about Sol's drinking and manic behavior. When Sol finds a journal in the property from a resident that went missing a few years ago, she realizes why they were able to buy the house so easily...
Through Sol's razor-sharp tongue and macabre sense of humor, Tirado explores the very real pressures to assimilate with one's surroundings to survive, while also asking the question: Is it survival when you're no longer your true self? Because in Maneless Grove, either you become a good neighboror you die.
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- Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
"A deeply disconcerting and fully engrossing tale that explores the dangers of conformity and the effects of assimilation on the mind, body, and spirit. Vincent's work casts off the illusion of a white picket fence as protection and asks you to consider that the real monsters are the ones who lurk behind it." - Kalynn Bayron, New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead and Sleep Like Death
"A creeptastic, tongue-in-cheek combination of The Stepford Wives and Invasion of the Body Snatchers all wrapped up into a cookie-cutter-suburb nightmare." - Booklist