suburban life

Text and color illustrations explore different kinds of communities, including suburban life and relationships with neighbors and other people who work and live there.

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

Explains what it's like to live in a suburb.

Simple text and photographs describe what it's like to live in a suburb.

Highlights features of living in a suburb with simple text and full-color photographs. Includes a picture glossary and a website for further information.

Noreen Kelly loses her job and her boyfriend on the same day, and as she wonders what to do with the rest of her life, she finds some surprising answers, some new friends, and a new passion while walking through her neighborhood.

When a man loses his composure and slaps a child who is not his own at a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a wide variety of people at the event examine the situation, revealing a sociocultural cross-section of beliefs about values and expectations.

Lynn Schulman and her family, hoping to escape the tensions of city life, move to the New York suburb where she grew up only to have their dreams of peace shattered when Lynn's lifelong best friend is found murdered, and her old boyfriend--the one who stalked her after their adolescent romance was over--takes up where he left off.

Clare Taylor arrives home after a wild week in Chicago to discover that the house has been stripped bare and there's no sign of her husband and two daughters. By dawn next morning, her house has been foreclosed against, there's a dead body in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976.

Gallagher introduces us to a cast of innovators who are redefining the American dream away from the traditional bucolic subdivision. She reveals why the decline of the suburbs isn?t a tragedy, but will ultimately lead to stronger, happier, and healthier communities for all of us.