Jews in America don’t much worry about anti-Semitism. It’s something that occurred a long time ago and far away. But what happens when it becomes personal? In Enemy in the Garden, an ordinary suburban family faces this lurking threat when they awake to find a swastika burned into their lawn.
Enemy in the Garden centers on the Millers: husband Harvey, wife Nora, and teenaged Laurie and Jonathan, living a normal middle-class life on Long Island. Nora enjoys her suburban paradise — she buys upscale food, chauffeurs her two children to sports teams, plays tennis and goes sailing with her church-going friends. Enraged by the swastika, Nora seeks clues to what prompted the hate crime by attending meetings of the neighborhood neo-Nazis known as the American Clan. As a consequence, her husband disappears from a rally in the park and Nora’s secure, idyllic world vanishes.
