Royte, whose previous book, "The Tapir's Morning Bath," followed researchers in the tropical rain forest, here tracks an assortment of garbage collectors, recyclers and sewage treaters, beginning with the men who pick up the stuff at her curb in Brooklyn on trash day.
The 55-year-old stay-at-home mom marched outside and sat down a few inches from her curb, blocking access to the underground valve that provides water to her family, including her four kids ages five to 14. .
As a teenager, I was persuaded by Jean Rhys's seductive, complex Jane Eyre prequel, Wide Sargasso Sea, to see Rochester as a racist and misogynist who transplants Bertha from the scented paradise of Jamaica to cold dull England, changes her name, represses her sensuality, curbs her spirit and drives her into madness.
Amanda Lee from Massachusetts received a call from Comcast last December ordering her to curb her internet usage or lose her broadband service for a year.
Ms Jansz said the new owner, Asanga Seneviratne, wanted her to "curb her style of writing and compromise her credibility".
You can glimpse the Old World even in her 1940s pictures of Midtown skyscrapers, which are layered with reflections from store windows à la Eugène Atget, and her curb-level shots of feet scurrying along 42nd Street.
The home secretary, Theresa May, has refused to accept an official "impact assessment" which put the cost to Britain's economy of her curbs on overseas students at up to £3.6bn.
Stung by the gossip, Louis attempts to lay down the law to his wife, but Emily will not allow her husband to curb her freedom, idealistically insisting on his trust in her virtue.
But Kincaid's force and originality lie in her refusal to curb her tongue, in an insistence on home truths that spare herself least of all.
When she caught up with Brandi and sat beside her on the curb, Brandi hid her face from the camera as she made crying noises.
There is a pride, yes — a perverse pride, a sense of amazement that she has made her shame so glamorous and interesting — and, at the same time, a desire to have her power curbed.
