[Neighbor George] plays with and subverts the calculus of desire ... deconstructing it psychologically and as a genre, as Gothic Romance gives way to Gothic Horror ... The novel draws its marvelous sense of atmosphere from the years Nelson lived in the West Marin town of Bolinas in the late 1970s, and her feel for the dark side of its poetry Bohemia is clearly hard earned ... The story goes through some marvelous twists and turns–including one literal twist and turn that punctures the everyday veneer of the story with unsettling anomaly, and that now seems to have taken up a permanent home in my memory palace of Weird lit."
–Erik Davis, The Burning Shore
