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You are about to discover that living
in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought
possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take)
suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly
entertaining) spokesman.
Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his
game professionally, with a gorgeous corporate executive
wife and a hip coterie in the coolest neighborhood in the
city. But when baby makes three, Mark and his family enter
the twilight zone called the suburbs, where public schools
are good, many wives stay home, and children ride their tricycles
in the driveway.
Nothing is the same ever again.
With the dry wit of David Sedaris, and Dave Barry’s
love of the absurd, Falanga details his new, suburban landscape
from the point of view of a bewildered but gung-ho everyman.
From the complex political pecking order in the neighborhood,
with its ultracompetitive block parties and its consuming
holiday-card rivalry, to the surprises lurking on every corner—such
as the twelve-year-old pyromaniac next door and the suspiciously
broad-shouldered “lady” on the commuter train—The
Suburban You describes in slyly understated prose the vicissitudes
of life in the ’burbs.
MARK FALANGA is vice president of Merchandise
Mart Properties, Inc., a Chicago-based real estate corporation,
and is a principal in his own real estate company. Falanga’s
work has appeared in GQ, and he writes a regular column on
fatherhood for Child magazine. HBO is developing a comedy
pilot with Brad Grey Television based on The Suburban
You.
Falanga lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife and
their two children.
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