Join Michael Lowenthal at Porter Square Books for the release of Place Envy. Jennifer Haigh will join Lowenthal in conversation. 

Growing 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.