{"product_id":"9780393078565","title":"Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original.\" —Joan Didion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1996, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e has become an American classic. In \"quick, translucent prose\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the suburbs of the 1950s. An intensely realized and wholly original memoir about the way in which a place can shape a life, \u003cem\u003eHoly Land\u003c\/em\u003e is ultimately about the resonance of choices—how wide a street should be, what to name a park—and the hopes that are realized in the habits of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121503748336,"sku":"9780393078565","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393078565_p0.jpg?v=1763696485","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393078565","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}