Dimensions
152 x 229 x 27mm
A wickedly funny dystopian satire set in a financially apocalyptic future America from Karl Taro Greenfeld, the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia. A distant future. You are your credit score. A Tea Party equivalent has won and its agenda of rapacious, unfettered, totally deregulated capitalism has resulted in a new class of Americans: Subprimes. These people have walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon or can no longer afford a fixed address. Their credit ratings make them unemployable. They are fugitives who keep moving to avoid arrest. We follow a Subprime family as it is forced to travel from West to East in search of work and food. A writer and his family, better off but still struggling in this economic meltdown also attempt to hold their lives together until they too end up joining this pilgrimage. They find a small settlement of Subprimes who are making a go of an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb, until that is also targeted by job creators for shale oil extraction. Finally a hero emerges, a woman on a motorcycle (suspiciously lacking a credit score), who just may save the world. Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country's future, and the result is a wickedly funny comedy about paradise lost and found, credit, economic policy and the meaning of family.
