Fiction / Historical Fiction / Social Satire
Average Town
In Development
Welcome to Avridge, America—everything average, nothing normal.
In 1957, newlyweds Jim and Patricia Smith arrive in a tiny Midwestern town with six houses, a failing gas station, a makeshift post office, a suspiciously excellent new federal highway, and neighbors who seem to embody a country on the verge of change.
Told with warmth and satire, Average Town uses one deliberately ordinary community as a miniature portrait of America—its optimism, contradictions, prejudices, institutions, and peculiar talent for pretending that history is happening somewhere else.