![]() ![]() In the course of buying furniture, repairing a chimney, purchasing a gravy boat for their first Thanksgiving, and watching her son buy a valuable Pokemon card only to give it away to a lonely child, she asks questions about capitalism, consumption, work, class, and more. ![]() And they have moved out of their apartment and purchased their first house. She has won various literary words and the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship–a grant affording her the support to write instead of teach. Now she and her husband hold a teaching positions, she at a major university where she earns $20,000 more than her husband at another school, for doing the same work. If you are familiar with her earlier writings, she lived something of a hand-to-mouth existence at one time. It is questions like these that Eula Biss explores in this new collection of essays under similar circumstances. ![]() ![]() Shortly after moving, my wife and I were walking in the neighborhood, and she asked me, “did we sell out?” We had just moved to a new city, moving from an older, inner ring, blue collar suburb in one city to a three year old housing development on the very edge of our new city, with twice the square footage of house and lot. Summary: A collection of essays on the occasion of the author and her husband buying their first house, considering the nature of capitalism, consumption, work, and class. ![]()
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