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Exiles in Eden

Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession
  • ISBN-13: 9780813081762
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
  • By Paul Reyes
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 25/01/2027
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 259 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Property & real estate [KFFR]
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An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's record-breaking foreclosure crisis While working to help his father's small company "trash out"-enter and empty-foreclosed homes in Florida during the 2008 housing crash, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. Grounded in Florida and Reyes's family history, and with character-driven investigations into the dark corners of the crisis, Reyes explores the human element of this grim rattling of the American Dream. From examining the unique "ecosystems" of each failed mortgage to witnessing parts of abandoned Florida returning to its wild natural state, Reyes takes the reader far from the machinations of Wall Street to the sunbaked side streets where the true costs of this crisis can be seen. The result is an extraordinary book about the allure and dream of home-and a portrait of an America where the terms of ownership can be forcibly or invisibly redrawn for unaware dreamers. A reminder of the everyday impacts of inflation, overdevelopment, and financial fraud, Exiles in Eden uncovers the stories lost beneath national economic collapse.
Paul Reyes is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Prior to joining VQR, he was senior editor at the Oxford American. His essays, criticism, and reporting have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, the Guardian, Mother Jones, Slate, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship in nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"A powerful book. . . . Everything feels transient, dreamy, and thinly rooted in the sandy soil, amid the palmettos and shotgun shacks, with hard times bearing down like a tropical hurricane."-The New Yorker "An engrossing memoir of American dreaming and financial devastation."-Mother Jones "[Reyes's] impressive effort stands as a wrenching chronicle of our new hard times."-Publishers Weekly "A compelling combination of memoir, history and reportage from one of the states hardest hit by the housing collapse."-BookPage "Exiles in Eden is engaging, insightful, compassionate, and often charmingly idiosyncratic."-Booklist "The housing crash is a story littered with subprime mortgages, collateralized debt swaps, government bail-outs and financial fraud. It is also populated with a lot of real people who got in real trouble and lost their dreams. Exiles in Eden tells their story."-Miami Herald
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