Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation - Paperback

$24.95

Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation - Paperback

Name: Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation - Paperback
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9780814259665
Price: 24.95 USD
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by Michael Lowenthal

$24.95

Book Overview

A queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.

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 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.

ISBN	9780814259665
Author	Michael Lowenthal
Publisher	Mad Creek Books
Genre	Biography and Travel
Format	Paperback
Published	February 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	292
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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