Rendered A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut. More particularly, it's about their children who are teenagersĪnd young adults, about their lives and times, how they speak and act as they try to find their way in this cold new world.įinnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives revealed in these beautifully This book is about some families who are not. Some people are thriving in it, of course. "A new American class structure is being born-one that is harsher, in many ways, than the one it is replacing. "While the national economy has been growing, the economic prospects of most Americans have been dimming," William Finnegan writes. In this groundbreaking work of social journalism, a spotlight is cast on a population we find it easy, or convenient, to overlook.
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