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Suburgatory: Twisted Tales from Darkest Suburbia
Written by Linda Erin Keenan
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Erin Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked by Warner Brothers in 2010, and you can see their imagining of Suburgatory on the ABC show of the same name.Keenan was forced by the man in her life to leave her beloved New York City for a supposed suburban utopia. Instead she found herself trapped in a place where conformity is king and where she often felt like she had been taken hostage by an adult Girl Scout troop. So Keenan decided to train her twisted reporter's eye on the strange inhabitants of this new foreign land. Thought of as a local town newspaper or Web site, Suburgatory includes "news stories" (Mom Plans School Auction During Dreary Sex) that go after the tiger moms, breastfeeding nazis, frustrated swingers, crypto-racists, barely-there dads, and power-mad principals.In addition to the irreverent news stories, Suburgatory features faux op-ed "Shout Outs" (Let's Do that Key Party Right the Next Time), witty advertisements (Briarcliff Academy-Educating the Stupid Rich Since 1903), and an over-the-top totally toxic advice columnist: Dr. Drama.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I won this book off of a GoodReads giveaway. I was interested in this book because I had heard that the show "Suburgatory" was based off of it. (Note: I haven't watched Suburgatory yet, but have heard from others that have watched it that it was a really funny show.) Linda Erin Keenan does address the show version in the introduction stating that while some of the plot of the tv show is similar to the book, the show concentrates on a teenage girl while the book concentrates on a woman.This book is in the form of a newspaper, with four different types of formats to the articles; regular newstories, Shout-Outs (op-eds), an advice column called Dr. Drama, and Paid Advertising Content (which Keenan warns is not actual advertising). These news articles are a satire of Keenan's own experiences as a city girl moved to the suburbs to raise her son. This book kind of reminded me of The Onion, also Stephen Colbert came to mind when reading this book (it does touch on some political issues but it is not overtly political).As a suburbanite this book had me in laughter the whole time. I could definitely relate to some of the stories told. Some of the stories were pretty out there, but they didn't seem all the way unbelievable. There was one story in which I felt a little uncomfortable about. It was the one titled "Boy Loves Steve Jobs More than Parents". I understand that this was probably written before Steve Jobs died but I just felt as though it was too close to his death.After reading this book I am ready to hang out in the IKEA, recite Eye of the Tiger, and go to a restaurant that refuses to tell my any nutrition information. If you love satire, you'll love this book.