Quotes About Suburbanism

Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.