{"product_id":"subprimes-0062132431","title":"SUBPRIMES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0062132431\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Greenfeld, Karl Taro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wickedly funny dystopian parody set in a financially apocalyptic future America, from the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia.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, theyve 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.Karl Taro Greenfelds 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.But all is not lost. A hero emerges, a woman on a motorcycle-suspiciously lacking a credit score-who just may save the world.In The Subprimes, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51607373414688,"sku":"NEW0062132431","price":14.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71o--Ma7hUL_ebbfe328-d441-40c9-af21-209689c6fc43.jpg?v=1779212476","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/subprimes-0062132431","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}