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Suburgatory: Twisted Tales From Darkest Suburbia (2011)

by Linda Erin Keenan(Favorite Author)

2.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0762780193 (ISBN13: 9780762780198)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

skirt!

review 1: Suburgatory wants to be a clever commentary on living in the suburbs, and it often is, but the little news clippings and news flashes bug by the time you get halfway through. I'm not going to pretend I'm clever enough to know a better format. I'm just clever enough to know that this format isn't for me. It's not a book I can't put down. I think it's actually easier to walk away and not finish the book because of the news clipping format. It doesn't suck you into the next page at all.
review 2: My favorite part of the book was the introduction, during which the author spoke about how she had come to write the book. The stories that make up the body of the book, while funny, and scarily true, were not as genuine and intriguing as the introduction and epilogue sec... moretions. I would recommend this book to anyone who has survived suburbia and lived to tell the tales. Keenan's stories are fantastic. They are just barely exaggerated tellings of daily life in suburbia; anyone who has spent time there will recognize most of her characters right off the bat. This book made me remember my time is the burbs fondly...while reassuring me about my choice to live far, far away from them. less

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