The Subprimes : A Novel Paperback
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
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A wickedly funny dystopian parody set in a financially apocalyptic future America, from the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia. In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score.
Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes.
Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they've walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address.
Fugitives who must keep moving to avoid arrest, they wander the globally warmed American wasteland searching for day labor and a place to park their battered SUVs for the night. Karl Taro Greenfeld's trenchant satire follows the fortunes of two families whose lives reflect this new dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-financially-fittest America.
Desperate for work and food, a Subprime family has been forced to migrate east, hoping for a better life.
They are soon joined in their odyssey by a writer and his family-slightly better off, yet falling fast.
Eventually, they discover a small settlement of Subprimes who have begun an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb. Soon, though, the little stability they have is threatened when their land is targeted by job creators for shale oil extraction. But all is not lost. A hero emerges, a woman on a motorcycle-suspiciously lacking a credit score-who just may save the world. In The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country today-and where we may be headed.
The result is a novel for the 99 percent: a darkly funny comedy about paradise lost and found, the value of credit, economic policy, and the meaning of family.
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- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:26/04/2016
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:26/04/2016
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- ISBN:9780062132437