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The Squeeze

The Squeeze

Harrowell, Crispin

Paperback

Series: Fault Lines, Book 4

EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN13: 9798242197756
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Life can look fine on paper while it's quietly getting harder to live.
This book is about the moment planning fails and coping begins.

In The Squeeze, Crispin Harrowell follows the pressure chain that turns ordinary weeks into constant adjustments: wages that don't quite keep up, debt that fixes tomorrow's obligations, housing that stops feeling secure, and sudden cost spikes that force decisions made fast and in private. The system can keep running-shops open, trains move, meetings happen-while dignity takes the hit.

Along the way, Harrowell shows how inequality becomes visible in new ways: some lives stay smooth, others snag, and the difference is misread as character. Responsible becomes a social border, respectable suffering becomes a performance, and resentment politics starts to look like a rational shortcut rather than a moral failing.

The Squeeze doesn't ask you to pick a villain. It asks you to notice the breakpoints: the small moments where people trade the future for the week, where trade-offs pile up, and where harshness begins to feel like self-protection. It also lays out what would genuinely soften the pressure-and what only looks like relief.

A brisk, humane guide to the forces reshaping everyday life, and to the breathing space a functioning society needs to stay workable.

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