# There was this fairly recent book with a hopping man...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204 "2017-10-30T02:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/1 "2017-10-30T02:58:12Z")

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In the last few years a book appeared at a local co-op with a hopping man on the cover.

The man was amazed at how little people knew each other in his community. Often people did not know their neighbors. So he arranged to spend one overnight per household to get to know more people.

I’d like to find the book but I can’t recall either the title or the author. Can anyone help?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/2 "2017-10-30T03:01:53Z")

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Moved to Cafe Society.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/3 "2017-10-30T10:21:10Z")

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Sounds like _In The Neighborhood: The Search For Community On An American Street, One Sleepover At A Time_, by Peter Lovenheim.

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**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/4 "2017-10-30T14:52:33Z")

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Thank you, The Other Waldo Pepper!

No need to continue this thread.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/5 "2017-10-30T15:19:44Z")

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What, you don’t want to stick around for a while, get to know me a little better? 😉

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/6 "2017-10-30T16:21:14Z")

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Now he’s going to go post in another thread, to get to know people! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-this-fairly-recent-book-with-a-hopping-man/800204/7 "2017-11-01T08:34:17Z")

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😃