Subprimes - Greenfeld Karl Taro
Subprimes - Greenfeld Karl Taro 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…
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Subprimes - Greenfeld Karl Taro
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. Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes.
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. Jobless and without assets, they've walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Desperate for work and food, a Subprime family has been forced to