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Disillusioned

Using research and personal stories, Benjamin Herold posits that the portrait of suburban America as a place of upward mobility for all is an illusion. — Amy Pagliarella

Benjamin Herold
Penguin Press, 496 pages
Published January 23, 2024

I grew up in the suburbs. We moved multiple times; my parents simply choosing another middle-class suburb based on the quality of the public schools and proximity to a shopping mall (I was, after all, a teenager in the ‘80s). I took all of this for granted in the way that children often do, assuming that my experiences were the norm. Journalist Benjamin Herold’s new...

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