D.J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, Holy Land is by turns touching, eerie, funny, and encyclopedic in its handling of what was gained and lost when thousands of blue-collar families were thrown together in the new suburbs of the 1950s." With an introduction and afterword that bring his suburban story up to date, this edition places Waldie's Holy Land in the context of the nation's postwar history.