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c2010., General, A. A. Knopf Canada Call No: 304.809 S257a Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Drnaso, Nick2016., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN Fic Drn Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nick Drnaso's social satire mercilessly reveals the sterile sameness of the suburbs. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway--flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high-school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Throughout Beverly, Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality." - from publisher.
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-- Where the American dream is moving2013., Portfolio/Penguin Call No: 307.740973 G162e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the U.S. housing bubble burst, no part of our country felt the pain more than the suburbs. Headlines screamed of foreclosed homes, displaced families, and an upsurge of crime in the once bucolic subdivisions that for so long symbolized the American Dream. Even five years later, conventional wisdom seems to be that this is all temporary - that once the economy rights itself and home prices return to pre-recession levels, we'll go back to the lives we led before. But that's not true. According to Leigh Gallagher, the recession was simply a catalyst for a much larger trend. The suburbs may have represented the dominant pattern of housing and population growth in the United States for more that half a century, but powerful social, economic, and demographic forces - along with the suburbs' poor design to begin with - are converging to render them unnecessary, and even undesirable, for an ever-increasing number of Americans.
