The Subprimes

TitleThe Subprimes
Year for Search2015
AuthorsGreenfeld, Karl Taro(b. 1964)
Date Published2015
PublisherHarper
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsAsian-American author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia of a future U.S. where corporations are all-powerful and the poor, the Subprimes, are dispossessed of everything they once owned and struggle to survive. One focus of the novel is a community established by a group of Subprimes in a town where all the houses have been abandoned. They create what for them is a eutopia and struggle to keep it against the corporations that forced the previous owners out. 

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Author Note

The author (b. 1964) was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and American father and lives in the U.S.

Full Text

2015 Greenfeld, Karl Taro (b. 1964). The Subprimes. New York: Harper. PSt

Dystopia of a future U.S. where corporations are all-powerful and the poor, the Subprimes, are dispossessed of everything they once owned and struggle to survive. One focus of the novel is a community established by a group of Subprimes in a town where all the houses have been abandoned. They create what for them is a eutopia and struggle to keep it against the corporations that forced the previous owners out. The author was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and American father and lives in the U.S.