A review by revafisheye
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander

4.0

This book will haunt me for a while. Glass House is a book about the economic collapse of my hometown of Lancaster, Ohio, like so many other small industrial towns across America. As the author recounted local history I somehow just knew as a kid, as well as some less savory bits I did not, and took the reader on a tour of local landmarks I felt a wild mix of nostalgia, sadness, and rage, knowing the devastation to come. My immediate family left before the worst came to Lancaster — the Carl Ichans and the private equity marauders and the easy heroin and the moralists who blame desperate people for just trying to get by the only way they can — but it's still my town and I take it personally that anyone would hurt the people there.