In the Neighborhood

Praise

“The people Lovenheim meets have great backstories, and his life is enriched by his efforts. It’s impossible to read this book without feeling the urge to knock on neighbors’ doors.”
–Chicago Sun-Times

“A disarmingly straightforward approach to its subject…Lovenheim does his modest best to create neighborly bonds where none existed, with quiet but real results.”
-Washington Post Book World

“It is hard to read this book and not think of your own neighborhood, your own street. Who do you know? Everyone? Anyone? No one at all?”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune

“This book, so gentle and unassuming on the surface, is in fact deeply radical. If we all took its lessons to heart, our world would be a different, and better, place.”
-Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Air We Breathe

“The appeal of In the Neighborhood is hard to resist, and Lovenheim’s interactions with his own neighbours are always interesting….”
–Winnipeg Free Press

“Lovenheim advances ideas about isolation in the modern world, and why a welcoming front porch is needed now more than ever.”
–Booklist

“Mr. Lovenheim’s ‘neighborhood’ is a place where no one knows anyone else-like so many neighborhoods today. In this warm and intimate book, he gets to know the strangers who are his neighbors and shows how a community can be transformed by the power of human connections.”
-Marc Silver, author of Breast Cancer Husband

“In the Neighborhood is a big book in sheep’s clothing: it insists on posing the boldest questions about our everyday American lives, but does so personably and mildly. We accompany this insistently wide-eyed author on a series of neighborhood sleepovers, and come face to face with our own insularity.”
-Mark Kramer, co-editor of Telling True Stories and former director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University

“This book will awaken your inner sociologist. In the Neighborhood is an inspirational reminder that for all our collective bemoaning about the loss of community, the solution is only a knock on the door away.”
-Prof. Keith N Hampton, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania