Essay: lawn people
Book Review: Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are Tiffany Tong December 10, 2008 The author, Paul Robbins, starts the book off with a strange observation about himself when he moved into a new home with a lawn: “I was becoming a … ‘lawn person.’” (Robbins 2007, xii) The rising population of a lawn person, someone whose life is influenced or dictated by the lawn, is arguably a very American middle class phenomenon (Thompson 2008). […]
