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“Acritical examination of American culture infused with understated, often dark humor that calls out the absurdities of social norms …A nuanced balance between critique and compassion, this collection offers readers an insightful, poignant look at American life.”—⚡#65039Editor’sPick Booklife Reviews“Th writing is evocative and has a lulling, poetic rhythm to it …His characters feel very human, and they all share a yearning for something greater, something more, that readers will connect with.”—IndieReaderIn seven penetrating and vivid stories, Life and Death in Suburbia takes you back to a place and time where much was promised. Beneath the conformity and optimism of the American suburbs of the late 20th Century simmered a clash of generations, of economic classes, of childhood and adulthood. These emotionally resonant and keenly crafted stories will powerfully pull you into the dreams and desperation of the souls who inhabit these places: a nine-year-old struggles with a severe speech impediment, an unbalanced mom and dad in Vietnam a teen takes a job as a stereo speaker con artist to buy cancer drugs for his father a lonely artist endeavors to find success and fend off eviction a spiritual nonconformist tries to find enlightenment in unconventional ways.With lyrical and insightful prose, Robb Skidmore delivers a vision which will linger in your heart and mind. Life and Death in Suburbia plunges into and exposes the social and cultural constraints within these subdivisions and apartments and reveals their devastating truth.