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Interesting book about families with children living in the suburbs and their attempts to procure a quality education for their kids. I appreciated Benjamin Herold’s analysis of race and white flight in major suburbs outside of Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and more. In particular, his willingness to own up to his own whiteness and to engage in an open and honest conversation with one of the interviewees, Bethany Smith, showed that he wasn’t writing this book just to be extractive or for his own profit. The ending of the book got real real fast given the current US Trump administration’s attack on DEI and the US’s descent into fascism at the hands of the Trump administration� it’s a scary time for kids, especially trans/lgbtq+ kids and kids of color.

The book was a little long though I can understand Herold’s desire to be thorough. It was also focused on education for children and not other elements of living in suburbia. Still, Herold tackles a complex issue that I feel needs to be talked about.