RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksSaunders performs the most rigorous of his cultural biopsies, examining with unsqueamish fidelity the tangled hopes and fears of our great midsection — suburban fathers and mothers, nine-to-fivers, minimum wagers, a soldier, a prisoner, a rapist — and providing a prognosis of the ‘no guilt’ capitalism that has apparently already (pretty much) won … These stories, however, are not about corporate greed or globalized homogeny (though its effects are palpable), but about the average citizen, decent and well meaning, trying to excavate some hospitable nook within a system that has not favored them.
