Description A wickedly funny dystopian parody set in a financially apocalyptic future America, from the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia.
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..
In The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country today--and where we may be headed.
A hero emerges, a woman on a motorcycle--suspiciously lacking a credit score--who just may save the world.
But all is not lost.
Soon, though, the little stability they have is threatened when their land is targeted by job creators for shale oil extraction.
Eventually, they discover a small settlement of Subprimes who have begun an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb.
They are soon joined in their odyssey by a writer and his family--slightly better off, yet falling fast.
Desperate for work and food, a Subprime family has been forced to migrate east, hoping for a better life.
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.
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.
Jobless and without assets, they\'ve walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address.
Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable.
Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes.
In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score.
Description A wickedly funny dystopian parody set in a financially apocalyptic future America, from the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia
