From Paved Paradise, which will be published next month by Penguin Press.

Parking psychosis is a regular feature of American life. The former NFL safety T. J. Cunningham was killed over a parking dispute at a Denver-area high school. In Las Vegas, Shane Pacada died of a bullet to the chest in a fight over a parking space. In the suburbs of Washington, D.C., a man was charged with attempted murder for shooting a neighbor who had parked in his spot. Twenty-eight-year-old Thomas Rodriguez was killed in Dallas after an argument over a parking spot. All of this took…