The Dark Sides of America

The Country That Sells the Exit

America promises a way out. Caius Nyx follows the bill through New York, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Chicago, Colorado and California, examining the distance between national promise and ordinary life. Rent, water, work and the price of belonging reveal the arrangements beneath the skyline. Blending literary reportage, memory and close observation, this sixth volume asks who can afford the freedom a country sells—and who remains at the table when the promise has left.