Michelle Teheux
2 min readMar 20, 2024

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Well, with (extreme) luck it will be a bestseller and will be made into a movie and then I can say yes!

Otherwise, no.

Blurb:

All wealthy families are alike; each poor family is poor in its own way.

— Leo Tolstoy, if he had written about a trailer park

For the residents of the Loire Mobile Home Park, surviving means understanding which rules to follow and which to break. Each has landed in the trailer park for wildly different reasons.

Jonesy is a struggling old-school journalist at a dying newspaper with one dream left. Angel is the kind of irresponsible single mother society just shakes its head about, and her daughter Maya is the kid everybody overlooks. Jimmy and Janiece Jackson worked as hard as they could to be the first in their families to achieve the American dream, but all the positive attitude in the world can’t change their predicament. Darren is a man just trying to enjoy his life, despite a dark past and disability. Kaitlin is a former stripper with a sugar daddy, while Shirley is an older lady who has come down in the world and lives in denial. Nancy, the manager of the trailer park, runs it like a tyrant, but finds out when a larger corporation takes over that she’s not different from the residents.

The Trailer Park Rules shifts between the perspectives of each of these characters, who interpret what’s happening in starkly different ways. These people are not all likable, but we all know them.

When a corporation purchases the trailer park and jacks up the lot rent, the lives of everyone in the park shift dramatically and in some cases tragically.

Welcome to the Loire Mobile Home Park! Please observe all rules.

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

Written by Michelle Teheux

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: michelleteheux@gmail.com. To buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/michelleteheux

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