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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation Conceptual making art and making selfGrowing 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. Place Envy 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