Nearby
Nearby by Elizabeth Yates published by Coward MaCann Inc. It was during the recent war that the story depicted in this novel was supposed to have taken place. Nearby was a little New England town, whose inhabitants were nearly all of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Irish stock. The swamplands with beauty in nature, but ugliness in human habitation made up the slums of this nice, respectable town that had been considered nearby to the rest of the world because it was near by two well-traveled turnpikes...