The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front Audiobook (Free)

You are about to discover that surviving in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (provide or consider) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and completely entertaining) spokesman.

Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his game professionally, with a striking corporate executive wife and a hip coterie in the coolest community in the city. But when baby makes three, Tag and his family members enter the twilight area about The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front called the suburbs, where public schools are good, many wives stay home, and children trip their tricycles in the driveway.

Nothing is the same again.

Using the dry wit of David Sedaris, and Dave Barry’s love from the absurd, Falanga details his new, suburban surroundings from the point of view of a bewildered but gung-ho everyman. From the complex political pecking purchase in the neighborhood, using its ultracompetitive stop parties and its own consuming holiday-card rivalry, to the surprises lurking on every corner-such as the twelve-year-old pyromaniac nearby as well as the suspiciously broad-shouldered “lady” within the commuter train-The Suburban You details in slyly understated prose the vicissitudes of life in the ’burbs.