Suburban Dicks (Suburban Dicks, #1)

by Fabian Nicieza

Jeff and Andrea had opposite parental approaches, and in many ways their approaches bucked gender stereotypes. Jeff was all in on the twenty-four-hour news cycle fearmongering. He seemed to believe that several million children were kidnapped each year in West Windsor alone. He was vocal about keeping the kids close at all times, even—especially?—if that didn’t mean close to him. Andrea, on the other hand, lived in the real world. She was Queens-bred and held a philosophy that shit happened and sometimes shit happened to you, but mostly it happened to the other guy. She refused to helicopter parent and hoped that approach would lead to self-reliant adults instead of missing or deceased children. She figured the odds were in her favor.