People Who Knock on the Door
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The Pequod Review:
Patricia Highsmith's People Who Knock on the Door begins as a combination Midwestern family drama and adolescent love story (and a fairly good one) but then it shifts to a crude and simplistic story of religious fundamentalism. As with all of Highsmith’s books though, it has an uneasy tension that pervades even the most mundane interactions. (The UK version was dedicated “To the courage of the Palestinian people and their leaders in the struggle to regain a part of their homeland. This book has nothing to do with their problem.”)