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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael LowenthalSeries:MachetePublish date:2/9/2026Pages:292
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mad Creek BooksISBN-13:9780814259665ISBN-10:814259669UPC:9780814259665Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Jewish, LGBTQ+, Essays & TraveloguesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCKFZW0T84

Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation

Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. Place Envy--his first book of essays after five acclaimed books of fiction--chronicles his quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew, as a...
Series: Machete
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mad Creek BooksISBN-13:9780814259665ISBN-10:814259669UPC:9780814259665Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Jewish, LGBTQ+, Essays & TraveloguesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCKFZW0T84
Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and The Paternity Test and of the short story collection Sex with Strangers. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Out, and many other publications. His stories have been widely anthologized.
Publisher: Mad Creek Books

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