10 of the best summer books of 2019, to delve into as we say goodbye to the great indoors for a few months.
A house is a perfect metonymn for the promises and ills of the American dream; it’s shelter you’re supposed to get, and keep, if things go right, but it can become a burden, a trap, if things don’t. And things aren’t going right for most of us.
The dream is rigged, for one thing—another is the creeping understanding that the places we thought were safe won’t be for long, especially if you live near a body of water. Broom’s memoir of poverty, striving, and justice in pre- and post-Katrina–stricken New Orleans concerns rising tides—the literal ones that took her childhood home, and the structural ones, too, that, instead of lifting all, are threatening to drown.
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