Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Pocket 75216
Year: 1967 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.75
Condition: Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 281
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When the Bough Breaks chronicles a deep-rooted conflict of values that splits a community being transformed from countryside to suburb not far from New York City. Forest Glen Road, an outlying residential section of Somerset Township, overlooks a gloriously unspoiled woodland tract. When plans are revealed to rezone the woods and sell them for commercial and housing development, Forest Glen neighbors vow to preserve the serene surroundings that buffer their homes and way of life from encroaching suburban sprawl and eyesore.

Are these devoted combatants hopeless elitists? Yes, say their opponents, who include the town supervisor and its business leaders, who claim the new industry and development will lower the  soaring tax rate and increase property values. But it is transparent to Forest Glen denizens that developing the Kingsland Woods would serve primarily to fatten the bank accounts of local businessmen and bolster the power of the political cronies controlling township affairs.