The Road Through the Wall ~ Shirley Jackson

Jackson's first full-length published novel. Already her themes of evil lurking underneath the ordinary are emerging, along with her classic, shocking ending. An "ordinary" suburban community outside of San Francisco's world is shattered when the wall dividing them from the "other, undesirable" neighborhood is taken down. However, as Jackson exhibits in her at times long, wandering, and drawn out prose (in this one, at least) the world as everyone thought it existed really never did. One I'll be reading again when I decide to expand my Jackson self-study....