On the cutting edge of modern life sits Los Angeles, a rainbow city of ethnic neighborhoods and social classes. The trick to understanding LA is finding a way to translate across the fault lines between these disparate realities. In Translating LA, Theroux does just that, bringing LA's broad range of social classes together to see what each has to say to the other and to us.
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On the cutting edge of modern life sits Los Angeles, a rainbow city of ethnic neighborhoods and social classes. The trick to understanding LA is finding a way to translate across the fault lines between these disparate realities. In Translating LA, Theroux does just that, bringing LA's broad range of social classes together to see what each has to say to the other and to us.
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