Holy land
California, social conditions
Suburban life
California, biography
Urbanization
New York Times reviewed
Social life and customs
Biography
This is an exquisitely realized and wholly original memoir of growing up in blue-collar 1950s Lakewood, California, the quintessential post-World War II American suburb and the prototype for the countless tract developments that would follow. At once a portrait of the author's coming of age, as wel…
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