Suburban Dicks (Suburban Dicks, #1)

by Fabian Nicieza

Andrea wished with all her heart she could have been one of them. Even a worn leather face and a Sisyphean exhaustion were more aspirational than being the one sitting in the car dutifully waiting for the spouse to come home.

Brianne and Andrea understood. Exhausted surrender to mothers-in-law: the universal language.

And he knew he had opened the town up to months of turmoil and uncertainty. He had set in motion something that would generate deep fissures and resentment in their community, but like most things in suburban America, it would crawl back into the comfortable cobwebs of the soul. It would lie dormant, as it usually did, until something else cropped up and gave it a chance to crawl out and see the sun again for a few minutes.