Neighbors Michael H Payne 9781502438843 Books
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You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your neighbors. For a full quarter of his life, twenty-year-old Gus Lancer has been a resident patient at Haven Space, a sanatorium and rehab clinic once isolated in the chaparral of southern California but now surrounded by the suburban sprawl of inland Orange County. The peculiar degenerative condition shredding his nervous system has paralyzed him from the waist down and robbed him of all but the most strangled attempts at human speech, but he has recently discovered that he can apparently understand and communicate with the various animals he meets. Rolling his wheelchair out under the care of El Brujo, one of Haven's therapy cats, he becomes more and more involved in the lives of the humans, dogs, cats, crows, squirrels and others forced into the close proximity of the neighborhood. And when some of these neighbors begin acting in a most unneighborly fashion, Gus finds that he might be the only one capable of keeping events from spiraling completely out of control.
Neighbors Michael H Payne 9781502438843 Books
I usually start a review by giving the genre, but this novel defies genre conventions. I won't even try to put a label on it.But I have no hesitation about labeling its quality. NEIGHBORS is a wonderful book—well written and with well-defined characters.
August "Gus" Lancer, age ~20, develops an unusual new talent: He can now communicate with animals. But has his progressive degenerative nerve disease given him this talent in compensation for his increasing inability to articulate his speech in talking with people, or is his talent a delusion of his deteriorating brain?
Despite his worries, Gus goes with the flow, letting his therapy cat persuade him first to leave his room at Haven Space nursing home to watch a cartoon show about ponies and then to leave Haven Space for trips about the neighborhood in his wheelchair. The novel details his encounters and growing friendship with crows, a squirrel, dogs, and eventually people, coming to a place of peace.
What most impressed me about this book was that the author completely understands the mental, psychological, and physical world of someone with a serious chronic condition. My face was always ready to cringe as I read, but it never did because the author did not make a single mis-step. For this reason, I suggest this as a great book to give to healthy people and able-bodied people to help them understand what life is like for the rest of us. But anyone would enjoy this book, with its powerful theme of friendship (apparently a theme of the cartoon as well?) and its example of how to live with the knowledge of death hanging over you.
When the book ended, I was sad. I wanted to continue to have adventures with Gus and his friends.
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Neighbors Michael H Payne 9781502438843 Books Reviews
I was impressed by the quality of the writing in this clever and unique story, and it grabbed my emotions as well. The animal characters are so wonderfully described, I had no trouble buying into the premise that they could talk to Gus, the human hero. Hard to put down.
I was immediately captivated by these characters. Each the epitome of quirky, but with wonderful depth and compassion. I loved their voices, their humanity. I plan to read another Michael H Payne book because I can't wait to be surprised.
Michael H. Payne had me at the first two words of this unforgettable book. Paul Gallico's "The Abandoned" was one of the books from my childhood that has stayed with me throughout my life, and when I saw that book referenced in the first sentence of "NEIGHBORS," I knew I was in for something very special.
Others have included synopses of the plot of NEIGHBORS in their reviews; I will not. I would rather readers encounter this book as I did, as a series of beautiful surprises that kept me waiting breathlessly for the next...and the next. This book does defy description, and I find myself at a loss for words in writing this review. I only know this NEIGHBORS deserves a place on the shelf reserved for those books that come to be regarded as "classics," right alongside books as unforgettable as "The Abandoned."
This is a sweet story about two people, equally crippled but in different ways, and the animals who love them. This is fantasy at its best-- entertaining, witty, fun and yet thought provoking and heartwarming.
What an amazing story--touching, funny and unique. The author gets inside the world of the severely handicapped without sentimentality or negativity, and, in beautiful, straightforward prose, introduces us to a freshview of the life of our neighbors, human and animal. You'll never read anything like this--don't miss it!
I was interested in this book because I love animals and I had a brother who was disabled and partially paralyzed. I wasn't expecting the way that the lead character (Gus) communicated with the animals in the story, but I was immediately captivated. The story of Gus's life is one filled with the emotions and frustrations of someone with a disability, but has the reader rooting for, and cheering, Gus on with his triumphs. This is a hard book to 'categorize', so I'm not going to try. I read a lot, and there is something about this wonderful book that I know I won't ever forget the story or the characters. I loved it.
I love this book. Gus is a young man with a debilitating illness confined to a wheelchair. Even his speech is affected by his illness. He resides in a residential nursing home where he has his own room yet can travel wherever he can go in the wheelchair. The best thing going for him is his ability to communicate with animals–most notable the nursing home cat--El Brujo, a couple of crows, an adorable squirrel and a enthusiastic puppy. The situations they get themselves into made me laugh aloud. It was a delightful book, light-hearted and fun. I was sorry when it ended, but closed it with a smile on my face. I hope the author writes a sequel to Gus and his animal friends. I recommend it when you want a story that will have you smiling all day.
I usually start a review by giving the genre, but this novel defies genre conventions. I won't even try to put a label on it.
But I have no hesitation about labeling its quality. NEIGHBORS is a wonderful book—well written and with well-defined characters.
August "Gus" Lancer, age ~20, develops an unusual new talent He can now communicate with animals. But has his progressive degenerative nerve disease given him this talent in compensation for his increasing inability to articulate his speech in talking with people, or is his talent a delusion of his deteriorating brain?
Despite his worries, Gus goes with the flow, letting his therapy cat persuade him first to leave his room at Haven Space nursing home to watch a cartoon show about ponies and then to leave Haven Space for trips about the neighborhood in his wheelchair. The novel details his encounters and growing friendship with crows, a squirrel, dogs, and eventually people, coming to a place of peace.
What most impressed me about this book was that the author completely understands the mental, psychological, and physical world of someone with a serious chronic condition. My face was always ready to cringe as I read, but it never did because the author did not make a single mis-step. For this reason, I suggest this as a great book to give to healthy people and able-bodied people to help them understand what life is like for the rest of us. But anyone would enjoy this book, with its powerful theme of friendship (apparently a theme of the cartoon as well?) and its example of how to live with the knowledge of death hanging over you.
When the book ended, I was sad. I wanted to continue to have adventures with Gus and his friends.
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