{"product_id":"place-envy-essays-in-search-of-orientation","title":"Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation","description":"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. \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.","brand":"Mad Creek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51646709989687,"sku":"9780814259665","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_cd32212d-5266-476c-80f7-942c52bbd301.jpg?v=1770028702","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/place-envy-essays-in-search-of-orientation","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}