I am reading Steven King’s new book, Joyland, so when I caught a glimpse of this from the side of the road, I had to take a look-see.
California’s abandoned gated communities, shuttered amusement parks, forlorn desert strip malls — crèches for a new society struggling to survive the ruination of the old. As the economy crumbles, and refugees from the failing American economic system struggle to remake their lives in what had been vacant real estate, ranks of the dispossessed amid seeming abundance, what happens when people start doing the math?
