The Road Through The Wall
The powerful first novel by the author of the most controversial short story ever published in The New Yorker
Welcome to Pepper Street. It's a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by. And lots of pleasant folks live here - the Merriams, the Fieldings, the Robertses, the Ransom-Joneses, and the Desmonds, just to name a few. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now that's not good - not with summer vacation starting and the kids all running around. It's just not good at all.
In the chilling debut novel that launched her heralded career, Shirley Jackson satirically explores what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths.