What's Wrong with Lake City?

Novelist Thomas Kohnstamm satirizes a local fictional loser.by Rich SmithIf you're from someplace like "Lake Shitty," a North Seattle neighborhood most known for its used car dealerships and shadily managed strip clubs, everything in the culture will tell you that life is elsewhere. But if you do end up escaping to get "good" education, you hourly fight feelings of fraudulence while trying to live in a world designed for and by blue bloods who never worked for anything. Succeeding in that world