Jim Blackview is a middle-aged boomer who loves California. But he doesn't always like it much.For the past several years he's churned out short essays about California as he sees it from his home in a pretty beach town. It is a community where citizens celebrate their own enlightenment and diversity and good fortune.But that's not all that Blackview sees. He writes of lives that have been warped by the real estate bubble and the Great Recession. He writes of the invisible people who mumble by the side of the road in Paradise, and the boisterous college students who hit town every year.But mostly Blackview writes about ordinary people: trying, most of them, to get by in a sunny land where "getting by" becomes harder every year. And he remembers how things used to be, and how they changed.If you grew up in a time when things seemed better than they are now, read these insightful, observant and dryly humorous stories about people just like yourself. As they scramble for a decent life, remember where they came from, and wonder what's going to happen to them next.
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