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"Exurbia ", McGrann's second novel, set in Los Angeles in the mid 80s during the dedicated to her parents.
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The contours of that divide fell along stark geographic lines : Democrats concentrating in dense urban areas and inner suburbs, Republicans expanding in exurbia and rural America.
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Floods of suburbia and exurbia are washing away communities, and with them values and relationships the human race has practiced and polished as far back as we know about.
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But so, too, does the growth of exurbia raise political concerns among others, including environmentalists and longer-term residents of towns being swallowed up in development.
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It is called variously exurbia, edge city ( Garreau, 1991 ), network city ( Batten, 1995 ), or postmodern city ( Dear, 2000 ).
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Half the district is in San Jose, the microchip metropolis, and the half toward the Pacific is hilly exurbia adorned by the hot tubs and horse stables of high-tech entrepreneurs.
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More highways have been built, all interconnecting, to carry the automobiles of the grim legions who make their twice-daily passages from and to the cookie-cutter warrens of exurbia.
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And while statistics are unreliable because of the lack of precise definitions, all agree that millions of Americans have moved to exurbia over the past four years and represent a new political force.
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The desire for larger, cheaper lots that has pushed suburbs to rural exurbia results in teen-agers who are alone for large parts of the day, or an alternative that may be worse.
