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For a lot of years the only way I used to know how to get control of my life was to get mad, It was the only way I knew how to stand up for myself,
Lynette

The point is you cant be too greedy,
The Futureth President of the United States of America

What does gentrification look like for people who are being pushed out

The foundation of the house was poured inusing faulty concrete.
During the winter rains, it leaked in a halfdozen places, Over the years small sections of the concrete wall had grown soft, the cement beginning to crumble, Their first landlord hired a company to patch the foundation, but he had died, and his son, who lived on the coast near Astoria, inherited the house.
He hadnt raised the rent in eleven years with the understanding that they wouldnt call him for repairs, So they didnt, and the basement was left to leak,

Lynettes got it tough, but she has a plan, She has been working like a dog at several jobs for the last few years and has squirreled away enough money for a downpayment on the rundown house she has been renting for years, with her mother and developmentally disabled brother.
The gentrification that has impacted most cities is making Portland, Oregon a very difficult place to get by in, particularly for folks at the lower edges.
It was underK some years back, but is now close toK, and will only keep rising, If they can buy the house, they can stay in a neighborhood they like, a good thing for Lynette and her mother, but a great thing for Kenny, whose need for familiarity far exceeds theirs.



Sometimes reading about loneliness can make you feel less lonely, . . Willy Vlautin Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Portland is changing so rapidly its hard to know what to think, It used to be a haven for artists, When I moved here it was cheap and people would come out to see original music, It was lucky. Its still great, its a great city, but its too expensive, I dont know where all the moneys coming from, but its coming and its hard on the working class and the artists, The working class people get pushed out to the suburbs and the artists just move to different cheaper cities, from the Americana UK interview

But one week from signing for the mortgage, Mom bails, unwilling to take on the debt, and Lynette, who, for a variety of reasons, has bad credit and cannot get a mortgage on her own, is stuck.
It will have to be done with Mom, or not at all,

Im fiftyseven years old and I still buy my clothes at Goodwill, Its a little late for me to care about building a futureYou dont know what its like, Other women my age are going on vacations with their grandkids, theyre talking about retirement plans and investments, Me, I havent taken a vacation since the time we went to San Francisco, and that was over fifteen years agoIll never retire and thats just a goddam fact.
why do I have to sacrifice more than I already have Why do I have to have a debt hanging over me for the rest of my life

They will be doublescrewed if someone else buys, as they will be evicted and forced to rent somewhere farther out, where they might come close to being able to afford the rent.
The owner is giving them a pretty good price, considering the market, What the hell, Mom You could have said something,

It was January and raining and fortyone degrees when Lynette and her brother walked across the lawn to her redNissan Sentra, She opened the passengerside door and Kenny got in, She put on his seat belt and walked around to the drivers side, The car started on the second try, The heater hadnt worked in a year and their breath fogged the windows inside the car, She drove with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a rag she used to wipe the condensation and steam from the windshield,

If it were funny, I guess it would be a running joke, but every time Lynette starts her old beater we are given a count on how many tries it takes for her to actually get the motor going.
I can relate to Lynette, having driven myBuick to work for at least a couple of years in theteens with no heat or a/c.
I kept a good supply of rags and paper towels in the car, and dressed very warmly in winter, And never left for work without doublechecking that I had my inhaler, Maxed out my AAA club allowance for jumpstarts in both those years, Wound up having to take the subway, mostly because I was not willing to risk freezing to death on the Kosciuszko Bridge when the car conked out one more time and it might be hours before Triple A could send some help.


Vlautin is a master at showing, taking us through the events of a harrowing few days in Lynettes life, What he chooses to show, and how clearly he shows it, gives us a very vibrant, if dark, picture of her life, and the limitations and challenges she faces from the outside world.
One running comment is on the mass of construction underway, This place sold its parking lot for an apartment development, Another condobuilding is going up here, more over there, Formerly recognizable neighborhoods have been transformed into yuppievortex,

She is out of her mind trying to figure a way to deal with this huge setback, so places her hope in being able to convince her mother to take back the brand new Toyota she just bought, and hitting up everyone who owes her money.
We follow her through two days and nights in the lowest tiers of Portland life, both physical and moral, Along the way Vlautin takes us on a tour of the city, not the sort of a booking tourists might sign up for, as Lynette fills in pieces of her life and history with each part of town she visits.
I added a map link in EXTRA STUFF

In her book sitelinkAutomating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks writes:

poverty is not an island it is a borderland.
Theres quite a lot of movement in the economic fringes, especially across the fuzzy boundary between the poor and the working class, Those who live in the economic borderlands are pitted against one another by policy that squeezes every possible dime from the wallets of the working class at the same time that it cuts social programs for the poor and absolves the professional middle class and wealthy of their social obligations.

What Eubanks does not address is that in addition to the gauzy border between working class and poor, there is a pretty thin veil between being poor but legal and stepping through to criminality.
One would expect that there is a lot of traffic there, driven by desperation, Lynette steps across the line, Does that make her a bad person Of course, some criminals, some of the folks Lynette deals with, are just scummy people,

Greed is a central theme here, Sometimes it is unequivocal. Sometimes more nuanced. Lynettes mother can be seen as greedy for buying herself a new car while bailing on the plan she and Lynette had agreed on to buy their home.
Mom has some reasonable gripes about never having had anything for herself, but still, breaking a promise that big way too close to the signing date is just not ok.
A little notice would have been nice, The people from whom Lynette tries to retrieve owed money are a motley lot, a woman who clearly can pay her back, but does not want to, a man who does everything in his power to short change her.
Even the people she asks for help try to take advantage of her, One actively puts her in harms way, Criminals try to steal what she already has, But Lynettes attempt to bolster her funds is also foolish, She will never be able to gather enough to remove the need for a mortgage, a mortgage she will never get on her own, It will ultimately all come down to her ability to sway her mother,

I just panicked and tried to get all the money that was owed me, I made a lot of mistakes and got greedy,

Vlautin writes about people on the edge, working class, desperate people, lonely people, isolated people,

When you look at a persons life its easy to pass judgement if you dont know them, The more you know the more you understand, Sometimes you find out what a person has gone through and youre surprised they are even upright, Other times its the opposite, some people just seem to invite or continuously stumble into hard times, I always try to show both sides in my songs and novels, Ive always been interested in how people can get beat up day after day and still get by, often times with great dignity, The struggle to overcome ones own ditches has always interested me, from the Americana UK interview

But there is always strength, hope, and goodness in Vlautins writing, In Dont Skip Out on Me, his prior novel, an older couple try their best to give a leg up to a troubled young man.
In The Free, Pauline, a nurse, is taking care of her father, and trying to help a troubled teen runaway, while Freddie, working in a longterm care facility, tries to help out as many residents as he can, a veteran suffering severe head trauma chief among these.


Lynette has made some serious mistakes in

her life, and she has issues that she may or may not be able to control, but she is working as hard as she possibly can.
And a large part of that is her love of her brother, She wants to buy the house, not just for herself and her mother, but for Kenny, who needs that stability a lot more than she or her mother does.
And when kindness does shine through, from an unexpected source, it is the relief we have been pining for, a beacon in the gloom, a desperately needed recognition in a world of people turning away.
But the problem remains. What does gentrification look like for people who are being pushed out, whether they are good people or not For my wife and me, it was being driven out of Brooklyn for affordable housingmiles away.
No criminality involved, at least none that I will admit to,

Vlautin offers a peering light in a dark place, looking at how poor and workingclass folks cope, or dont, with the challenges of life in thest century.
When he was much younger, he used to have hanging in his room a portrait of John Steinbeck, a writer who also wrote extensively about life for folks on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
I expect he would be very impressed at the body of work Vlautin has produced, Like Steinbeck, Vlautin is one of the best writers of his generation, someone who cares about working people, and is able to powerfully dramatize the struggles they endure.
The Night Always Comes, Yes it does, and it gets plenty dark, But Willy will leave a light on for you,

posted September,

Publication date April,

EXTRA STUFF

Links to the authors sitelinkpersonal, sitelinkTwitter and sitelink FB pages, and a sitelinkWiki page entry for good measure.


Prior books by Vlautin I have reviewed
sitelinkDon't Skip Out on Me
sitelinkThe Free
sitelinkNorthline

This is Vlautins sixth novel

Interviews
Americana UK sitelinkInterview: Willy Vlautin by Del Dey
Lake Oswego Library sitelink Lake Oswego Library Presents: Willy Vlautin with Bill Kenower on The Free and Dont Skip Out on Me video:
Deschutes Library sitelinkAuthor Willy Vlautin
The Irish Times sitelink Willy Vlautin: You try to make something that is a story, and is about life, but also says something that matter by Ellen Battersby
The Guardian sitelink Willy Vlautin: 'I think my mother was ashamed that I was a novelist' by Ryan Gilbey
Little White Lies sitelink Willy Vlautin on the art of working class storytelling by Ian Gilchrist

Items of Interest
The Delines sitelinkThe Imperial
My review of sitelinkAutomating Inequality
sitelinkPortland Locations in the novel I made a Google map to show some of the places Lynette travels in her odyssey.
Still fiddling with this. Hope I got them all correct, Please let me know if when you spot errors, so I can make necessary repairs, I did not specify a location for Lynettes home or for theth Street Bakery, although I have my suspicions, For best results, click on the View in Google Maps option for each entry, From there, you might want to poke around a bit , clicking on the images that are offered on the left part of the window, .

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