Won the Pulitzer Prize. It is a novel that explores the growth of the modern American city and the American dream of working hard and getting ahead. It is a generational epic that then explores the growth in industrialization leading to globalization then offshoring and the gutting of the American urban center. He explores generational conflicts of the hard-working immigrant classes, the beneficiaries of the first generation of wealth creators followed by the rejectionists of those who grew up with everything. It weaves in the politics of race and the Vietnam War. I loved, loved, loved this book.
The Full Ratchet