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In a city divided by fear and hate, a couple must fight to protect their unborn child On the same day the child suicides first start, a couple in the East Side finds out they're pregnant. One has nothing to do with the other, but in a city rife with tension between the East Side and the West Side, they have reason to be concerned. Then when a teen's murder-suicide rocks the city, many see a pattern, that it's the failings of the East Side and those people-you know, those people-who live there. The incidents are politicized, disinformation is spread, and a group called ""The Good Neighbors"" is created. Led by a preacher-politician whose entire platform is built on hate, and egged on by TV and social media, The Good Neighbors launch a campaign of violence and fear to rid East Side of all children-born and unborn-whom they think will infect the young minds of the neighboring communities. For our protagonist and his pregnant wife, their status as East Sider's-both by address and appearance-means having to look over their shoulder. And as tensions mount, it means protecting their unborn child at all costs. With themes of xenophobia, reproductive rights, and media-driven extremism, this book is more timely than ever.

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""For years, Hayan Charara has stunned us with his poetry-his genius with words, the images those words awoke both on the page and in our subconscious. Now, Charara astounds with his first novel, a mystery of sorts: Why are neighborhood children dying by suicide, even taking other children with them when they do? Well, here's the deal: I will not solve the mystery for you but know this: the nameless narrator tells us his story in the bigger scheme of things, and for once, from somewhere other than the Judeo-Christian, Western-European perspective. And Charara's fiction is poetic too, not so much in form, but in its almost photorealistic capture of the 'American' condition-like it or not. And at the end, a twist as deft as any Charara has created in his poems."" -Randa Jarrar, author of Him, Me, Muhammad Ali ""A haunting and suspenseful story of tragic loss and blind faith. In this searing novel, Hayan Charara explores how a bizarre epidemic of child suicides affects a racially diverse suburb, forcing a pregnant couple to question their good fortune. Hush, Little Children is a wonderful debut."" -Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans

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Born in Detroit, Arab-American author Hayan Charara lives and works in Houston, Texas. He is the author of four poetry collections and a children's book. Hush Little Children is his first novel.

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