The Neighborhood Division

My new collection of literary short stories, The Neighborhood Division: Stories, was just released from Whistling Shade Press.

Thematically, it deals with the pursuit of self preservation and what that can mean for community preservation (but, of course, I hope it's handled subtly and is entertaining to read).

Here's what others have said:

"Jeff Vande Zande’s latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities, these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are—and may become."

“Two shots realism, one shot speculative, a dash of horror-- the genre-bending stories in Jeff Vande Zande’s The Neighborhood Division and Other Stories shows us what happens when suburbia takes on a rebellious, sometimes eerie and always dangerous, life of its own. Vande Zande’s earnest, well-meaning characters are fated to discover that the seemingly benevolent perks of privilege they’ve come to rely upon are in fact the greatest threat to their security. From a family trapped in their own basement by an aggressive home renovation to a tenant’s crusade to save his building from collapsing under the load of his neighbors’ excessive possessions, these stories reveal the unexpected joys and perils of taking a closer look at our most familiar neighborhoods.”

-Laura Hulthen Thomas, author of States of Motion

“Turgenev said that we all come from beneath “The Overcoat,” and the wardrobe one discovers in Jeff Vande Zande’s The Neighborhood Division and Other Stories truly unbuttons startling new revelations.  These fictions are a Sartor Resartus of the form and content found in the linings of the heart, fierce and bold patterns that brilliantly retailors the whole grotesque haberdashery of Winesburg, Ohio.  This read was quite the runway show.”

-Michael Martone, author of The Moon Over Wapakoneta and Brooding

“Don’t be fooled by what initially seems familiar in Jeff’s stories. An unsettling, almost surreal quality quickly spins the characters into uncertain territory where you truly don’t know what will happen. Each of them face harrowing challenges that are theirs alone, and there's no going back. I found these stories as compelling as they were chilling.”

            -Linda K. Sienkiewicz, author of In the Context of Love

Keeping in the spirit of a previous blog post, I hope if you're interested in ordering the book, you'd choose to go directly through Whistling Shade Press.

http://whistlingshade.com/neighborhood_division.html

But, it's also available through Amazonopoly (Amazon, I mean)

https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Division-Jeff-Vande-Zande/dp/0982933592/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1591539800&refinements=p_27%3AJeff+Vande+Zande&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Jeff+Vande+Zande