"Are tiny homes an outcome of expanded housing possibilities or a consequence of constrained options? Reconstructing the American Dream documents life inside tiny home communities in Texas to explore the different pathways, aspirations, challenges, and freedoms associated with tiny home living. Through vivid text and photographs, the book complicates the popular image of tiny homes and examines the possibilities and limits of new community forms."
 

Dr Esther Sullivan (University of Colorado), author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place

"This book invites you into the intriguing and growing phenomena of tiny housing in Texas. The homes have alluring aesthetics, but it is the characters - shared so wonderfully through Oba-Smith’s photography and the enlivening text - that radiates beautifully through the stories of journeys, places, lives, contradictions, and triumphs over adversity, and makes this book feel so rich and lively. Much more than a celebration of tiny living, it is, as the authors'; note a ‘disrupted coffee table book’, as keen to share with the reader the complexities and challenges of tiny housing as its hopeful possibilities - brilliantly using a board game to capture these varied journeys. Rarely has robust academic work been shared so creatively and beautifully. I invite you all in to explore the tiny house nation."
 

Professor Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield), author of Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics