{"product_id":"place-envy-essays-in-search-of-orientation-9780814259665","title":"Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation","description":"\u003cb\u003eA queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing 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. \u003ci\u003ePlace Envy\u003c\/i\u003e--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 queer traveler and lover, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth. Yearning for a queer lineage, he obsesses about an uncle who perished at Bergen-Belsen but then finds, in his grandmother's German hometown, a more surprising legacy. He lives with a Pennsylvania Amish family; accompanies blind gay men on a Mexican cruise; plays jazz with Sun Ra, the Afrofuturist who claimed to hail from Saturn; and pursues a clarifying love affair in Brazil. Collectively, these essays recount Lowenthal's many journeys of dislocation and relocation: to foreign countries and subcultures and to the riskiest shores of family and self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14163426\"\u003eMichael Lowenthal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mad Creek Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO037000\"\u003eJewish\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO031000\"\u003eLGBTQ+\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRV\"\u003eTravel\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRV010000\"\u003eEssays \u0026amp; Travelogues\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Lowenthal is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Same Embrace, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvoidance, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharity Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paternity Test\u003c\/i\u003e and of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eSex with Strangers.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. His stories have been widely anthologized\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mad Creek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46061764968587,"sku":"9780814259665","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_b02d6734-f3dc-4e85-943d-2d523780726f.jpg?v=1772815343","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/place-envy-essays-in-search-of-orientation-9780814259665","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}