“Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.” ShouldNovelSafeSmartBreathsNeighborAmbitious Author:Richard Russo
“Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.” WorldWayDoeReadingCan DoMoralNovelSafeAchievementNeighborComplexityMagnificent Author:Ron Rash
“Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.” PowerfulNovelSafeNeighborFinestStorytellerMasterpiece Author:Jill McCorkle
“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.” FeelsPastNovelGraceWiseSafeDepthNeighborNovelistsShockUnusualRichnessMississippiPast And PresentEffortless Author:Tom Perrotta
“I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.” KnowsShouldKindImportantNovelMessagesNeighborStatementsBe Kind Author:Chinua Achebe