New Book Release: Life and Death in Suburbia

Hello Friend,

I’m super excited to announce that my latest book, Life and Death in Suburbia, has just been released. It’s available for purchase on Amazon either in Kindle format (pre-order with a release on Dec. 12) or as a paperback (immediate delivery!)

It’s a short story collection, with stories I published previously mixed with new stories I wrote to unify the collection. BookLife Reviews made it an Editor’s Pick and described it: “A nuanced balance between critique and compassion, this collection offers readers an insightful, poignant look at American life… explores deep themes of alienation, self-discovery and self-preservation in a complex social and economic landscape” and also, “gritty, vivid stories.”

From the back cover:

“In seven penetrating and vivid stories, Life and Death in Suburbia takes you back to places and times that promised much. Beneath the conformity and optimism of the American suburbs of the 1970s through the 1990s simmered a clash of generations, of economic classes, of childhood and adulthood. These emotionally resonant and keenly crafted stories will powerfully pull you into the dreams and desperation of the souls who inhabit these places: a nine-year-old struggles with a severe speech impediment, an unbalanced mom and dad in Vietnam; a teen takes a job as a stereo speaker con artist to buy cancer drugs for his father; a lonely artist endeavors to find success and fend off eviction; a spiritual nonconformist tries to find enlightenment in unconventional ways. 

With lyrical and insightful prose, Robb Skidmore delivers a vision which will linger in your heart and mind. Life and Death in Suburbia plunges into and exposes the social and cultural constraints within these subdivisions and apartments and reveals their devastating truth.”  

I think of this book as a companion piece to The Pursuit of Cool because it covers childhood during the 1970s and young adulthood in the 1990s, bookending the 1980s of Pursuit.

If you read Life and Death in Suburbia and enjoy it, please consider leaving a review on Amazon. Reviews play an essential role in new fiction being discovered by more readers. Here’s the link to leave a review.

Thanks so much and Happy Holidays,

—Robb