Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
5. Introduction: The Time of the Suburb 1
6. CHAPTER 1 The Everyman and his Car: Metropolitan Memory and the Novel Sequence 28
7. CHAPTER 2 Suburban Gothic and Banal Unhomeliness 82
8. CHAPTER 3 Some Shared Story: Suburban Memoir 125
9. CHAPTER 4 Houses, Comics, Fish: Graphic Narrative Ecologies of the Suburban Home 161
10. CHAPTER 5 Devolved Authorship, Suburban Literacies and the Short Story Cycle 208
11. Conclusion: Built to Last? Staging Suburban Historicity in the Teardown Era 233
12. NOTES 249
13. INDEX 280