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Life among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession
Macmillan
September 2010
On Sale: August 31, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0805091238
EAN: 9780805091236
Hardcover
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An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"β enters and emptiesβforeclosed homes in Florida, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of his own family and the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. Grounded in Florida and Reyes family history, and with character-driven visits to the dark corners of this crisisβincluding with those who are calling for revolutionβReyes explores the human element of this frightening rattling of the American Dream. From examining the unique "ecosystems" of each failed mortgage to witnessing parts of abandoned Florida returning to its wild natural state, Reyes takes the reader far from the machinations of Wall Street to the sun-baked side streets where the true costs of this crisis can be seen. The result is an extraordinary book about the allure and dream of homeβand a portrait of an America where the exiled insist on the right to their own America dreams, even as the terms are forcibly redrawn.
 Media BuzzOn The Media - October 23, 2010
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