A Better Class of People
Description
In an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone-a woman named Esperanza.
Between stops, we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic, the same man seizing and shuddering on a sidewalk, an institution where the man is housed with other undesirables (or troublemakers?), a neighborhood where all the residents have forgotten their names. Over everything looms the specter of a nameless menace, a pervasive sense that something-more than just a ride-is coming to an end.
With Robert Lopez's signature innovation, A Better Class of People delivers a network of stories interconnected and careening like subway tunnels through the realities of modern America: immigration, gun violence, police brutality, sexual harassment, climate change, and the point of fracture at which we find ourselves, where reality and perception are indistinguishable.
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Content
- Intro
- A Better Class of People
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Furloughs
- The People Who Need It
- Even the Moonlight Is Blinding
- Roy-Boy
- Three Kinds of People on the Crosstown Bus
- The Sexual Ramifications of Coffee
- Woodpecker Pie for Christmas
- How to Live, What to Do
- Which One's Will
- Decisions
- Eviction Notice
- Bloodlines
- The Natural Use of the Woman
- Gone Beautiful
- A Good Percentage
- The Trouble with Paddling
- The Dahlberg Repercussions
- Two Syndromes at Once
- To Grow Old in America
- This Is Me After Dance Class
- Buggery
- A Better Class of People
- The Future Home of the Wymans
- What Is or Isn't Collapsing
- The Question as We Understand It
- What the Living Emit
- In the Dim Light
- Acknowledgements
