Ory and history engages the reader like poetry, producing images that remain long after you finish reading. Holy Land's hybrid mixture of fact and emotion, mem. Like his neighborhood, the author's book is organized into small numbered lotssome no longer than a sentence-and in them he seeks to find his own place in the spiritual grid."-The New Yorker "Part memoir, part history, Holy Land is a poetic, hypnotb cally appealing collection." -People "Finally, a book as complicated as the suburbs themselves. J Waldie the Plains of Id have found a voice." -Kevin Starr, Los Angeles Times Book Review " almost mystical memoir about the evolution of a suburb and about a Catholic boy. And by the end of this short, fascinating book, he has presented Lakewood with a history as rich and various-as storied-as the most ancient of cities." -Michael Poll,an, New York Times "A writer of pithy grace, compassion and insight. He has written a quirky, multidimensional portrait of Lakewood in the form of a mosaic. "Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." -Joan Didion "Waldie is much too close to Lakewood to sentimentalize it and far too deeply rooted there to buy into any glib notions of its placelessness.
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