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Name: The woman next door
Author: Yewande Omotoso

📘 The woman next door by Yewande Omotoso

Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors whose lives are divided by their race, their recent loss of husbands, and a deliberate, almost theatrical hostility. Each has cultivated a successful career, yet both carry questions, disappointments and secrets that leave them ashamed. When an unforeseen incident pulls their worlds together, the physical and emotional barriers between them begin to crumble. The sharp-edged bickering gradually gives way to conversation that exposes shared experiences and ultimately a fragile, tentative bond. Through wit and wry humor the story explores how common ground can be found in unexpected places, and whether connection can grow when two women, both widowed and both fiercely independent, choose to look beyond the contradictions that once defined them.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Yewande Omotoso

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