idyll

But this idyll is under threat as the seawater levels continue to rise.

Full of snappy and snappish dialogue, the book imagines a carnival-esque week’s idyll in the “shantytown of millionaires” that was 1950s Malibu.

At the diner where Fernán works for $99 a month, he overhears patrons worrying about the Black and Puerto Rican families moving into their white idyll.

Within a year of its construction, this prehistoric idyll met a dramatic end.

But by the 2000s, demographic change was afoot as racial attitudes shifted and people of all kinds sought the same suburban idyll.