Summary

Chapter 10. Book titles at the beginning of this chapter: Flipping Properties: Generate Instant Cash Profits in Real Estate; Devious Maids: The Complete First Season (DVD); The 21-Day Yoga Body: A Metabolic Makeover & Life-Styling Manual…; and Street Fighter: The Graphic Novel, Based on the Video Game.

In this brief chapter, the author follows library employee Arin Kasparian as he works his way throughout a lineup of clients, checking out things like a DVD of the “Devious Maids” TV series, a book about yoga, and a book about Alcoholics Anonymous. The author describes how Arin changed jobs reluctantly (he used to work at a restaurant where he got free food), but now says that working at a library makes him feel like he is doing something worthwhile. This, the author notes, is similar to what seems to be the main reason why so many young...