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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"— enters and empties—foreclosed 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
crisis—including with those who are calling for
revolution—Reyes 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
home—and a portrait of an America where the exiled insist on
the right to their own America dreams, even as the terms are
forcibly redrawn.
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