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    We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror
    We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror
    We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror
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    We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror

    Written by Vincent Tirado

    Narrated by iiKane

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft County—We Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism.

    Where beauty lies, secrets are held…ugly ones.

    Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day—and all-bottle—event. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful, gated community of Maneless Grove.

    However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion. She has no interest in the pushy Homeowners Association, their bizarrely detailed contract, or their never-ending microaggressions. But Alice simply attributes their pursuit to the community motto: “Invest in a neighborly spirit”…which only serves to irritate Sol more.  

    Suddenly, a number of strange occurrences—doors and stairs disappearing, roots growing inside the house—cause Sol to wonder if her social paranoia isn’t built on something more sinister. Yet Sol’s fears are dismissed as Alice embraces their new home and becomes increasingly worried instead about Sol’s drinking and manic behavior. When Sol finds a journal in the property from a resident that went missing a few years ago, she realizes why they were able to buy the house so easily…

    Through Sol’s razor-sharp tongue and macabre sense of humor, Tirado explores the very real pressures to assimilate with one’s surroundings to “survive,” while also asking the question: Is it survival when you’re no longer your true self? Because in Maneless Grove, either you become a good neighbor—or you die.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 3, 2024
    ISBN9780063383210
    We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror
    Author

    Vincent Tirado

    Vincent Tirado is a non-binary Afro-Latinx Bronx native. They ventured out to Pennsylvania and Ohio to get their Bachelor’s degree in biology and Master’s degree in bioethics. They have had short stories published in Desert Rose Lit Mag and FIYAH! Magazine.

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    • 3/5
      A bit slow but pretty good through the last chapter. The last 5-10 minutes were confusing. It's like the author wanted the book to go one way, forgot they were writing it that way, and continued writing a completely different ending. It's not a plot twist, it's an abrupt change out of absolutrly nowhere. The book has a lot of potential and fell flat.
    • 3/5
      I was really enjoying this book until the very end and then it just fizzled out.

      I really enjoyed the main character Sol. I really felt for her and what she was going through with moving into the neighborhood. Then the ending suddenly when by so quickly and I didn't feel like the story was over when it ended. Everything felt rush at the end.

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