Fiction. "Steve Emerson notices everything. At the center of his style there is always some detail which, when uncurled, reveals the story in its veins. That detail might be anything: a word that cuts across the room like a paper airplane, the self-defining habit of a body in its calculated struggle with gravity, or a slightly dangerous Brazilian waving a loaded Phillips screwdriver at a shocking pink house in Key West. But one of the great pleasures in reading NEIGHBORS is the reflexion woven through the fabric of Emerson's human company. A gallery of marvellous pictures."—Edward Dorn