Subprimes

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