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Overview

Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda 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 title this fall.

 

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 website, 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. .

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780762780198
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
  • Publication date: 10/25/2011
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 243,968
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Linda Erin Keenan spent seven years as a CNN head-writer for anchors, including Anderson Cooper and Lou Dobbs, before trading it all in for baby and suburbia. She now trains her reporter’s eye on the subversive side of her new, foreign environment. Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine and The Huffington Post.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 31, 2011

    So hilarious it got me in trouble in the quiet car!

    I picked up this book at the recommendation of a friend and started reading it while riding on Amtrak. I found myself repeatedly laughing out loud, much to the dismay of my fellow travelers in the quiet car, and after the third dirty look from the woman across the aisle, I finally moved seats--Ms. Keenan doesn't hold back any punches, and the read demanded unrestrained laughter. The cafe car was far more accommodating.

    Smart, sharp tongued, irreverent, and spot on satire. Very different than what I've seen of the TV show, but that's fine by me. Looking forward to more by this author, but getting little doses daily since I friended her on Facebook!

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