You are going to discover that surviving in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. Because of this country’s 145,892,494 (provide or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an absolutely deadpan (and completely entertaining) spokesman.

Tag Falanga is a slick urban dweller, near the top of his game professionally, with a striking corporate executive wife and a hip coterie in the coolest neighborhood in the city. However when baby makes three, Mark and his family enter the twilight area about The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front known as the suburbs, where public schools are good, many wives stay home, and children ride their tricycles in the driveway.

Nothing is the same ever again.

With the dry wit of David Sedaris, and Dave Barry’s love from the absurd, Falanga details his new, suburban scenery from the idea of view of a bewildered but gung-ho everyman. From the complex politics pecking purchase in a nearby, with its ultracompetitive block parties and its consuming holiday-card rivalry, towards the surprises lurking on every corner-such as the twelve-year-old pyromaniac next door and the suspiciously broad-shouldered “woman” within the commuter train-The Suburban You explains in slyly understated prose the vicissitudes of lifestyle in the ’burbs.