This stellar and unflinching look at racism and greed will have readers hooked til the end. Sydney’s paranoia and fear, coupled with her guilt at placing her mother in a nursing home, fuel the tense plot, which builds to a credible finale. Hurston comments on the white neighbor who views acquisition as a game, and Du Bois comments on the problematic nature of historical accounts that belie true facts (viii). Theo, a new white neighbor she met on the tour, lends some unwanted assistance in trying to figure out what’s going on. Alyssa Cole’s novel When No One Is Watching begins with an epigraph quoting Zora Neale Hurston and W.E.B.
As Sydney researches Gifford Place’s complicated history and racial background, she notices that longtime neighbors and friends are starting to disappear. Angered by the white tour guide’s detailing “the lives of the rich white people who’d lived there a hundred years ago,” but saying nothing about the area’s current African American residents, Sydney plans to set up her own neighborhood tour. A fantastic choice for fans of Get Out, this is a compulsive, entertaining, and thought-provoking novel., The dangers of gentrification turn very literal in romance veteran Alyssa Cole's unputdownable new thriller., When No One is Watching is a thriller, Hitchcockian in its essence (those brownstones have plenty of windows, and a love story. At the start of this outstanding thriller from Cole ( A Prince on Paper), Sydney Green decides, as a distraction from her elderly mother’s illness and other personal woes, to take a walking tour of Gifford Place, her historically Black Brooklyn neighborhood, which is becoming increasingly gentrified and considered as the home for a pharmaceutical firm’s massive new headquarters.
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