“Holy Land” has more than Waldie’s personal anecdotes on life in a suburban area. “The bits stand alone like a little house, a little lot on the gridded street - all connected to each other by the common fate they share.” “‘Holy Land’ began as collection of bits it was always in the form of bits,” said Waldie. Sections are divided by loose associations, ranging from anecdotes about his life to the logistics of Lakewood. “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir” is an autobiography written in 2005 composed of sections - 316 in total - describing the day-to-day accounts and aspects of living in post World War II suburbia.Īccording to Waldie, all portions are a “typewritten page” of around 250 words and at least a sentence in length. “This book, though quite specific in terms of characterization of a particular place, is really about a lot of different places.” “My story is very much about the experience of growing up for tens of thousands of Angelenos who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, who grew up in the little houses on little lots like those in Lakewood,” said Waldie. 19 on his book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir” and on his life in Lakewood in the 1950s. Waldie spoke to a full audience in Kreider Hall Oct.
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