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plpietra 's review for:
A Crime in the Neighborhood
by Suzanne Berne
It's funny, after all these years I'm still fascinated by how people hurt each other, why it happens, and by what makes people need to be cruel. But I'm afraid my interest nowadays has become practical. When I was a child, I was curious about the mechanics of pain. Now I want to understand for reasons of security. "Watch yourself"—it's still the best advice anyone ever gave me. Pain is always about to happen somewhere to someone I know and at times it seems that the best I can hope for is not to be the cause of it. In this way I guess I am a product of my generation, most of us anxious pragmatists and skeptics, who are less interested in the mysteries of human pain and cruelty than in how to avoid them.