Huge, Bad, and Sweet--Suburbia on the 1955 Longlist.

In which we consider the ways three novels featured on the 1955 longlist dissected the suburban landscape.

Hi, Y’all! Glad You’re Here—

When I first got back into reading again, I mostly read books that had been adapted into films starring Kate Winslet. First it was The Reader, because she’d won the Oscar for her role, and then it was Revolutionary Road, which is the role she should have won her Oscar for.¹ I finally landed on Little Children, which was an ad…