{"product_id":"holy-land","title":"Holy Land","description":"\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":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836053696717,"sku":"9780393327281","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_2364cdd5-9b6c-455e-b563-65de1f957a65.jpg?v=1790991891","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/holy-land","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}