![]() “My father died behind a well-made, wooden bathroom door” (24) illustrates the emotionless and randomness of his thoughts. ![]() Waldie wrote the memoir in a manner that almost seems like a series of random thoughts that have been cleansed of emotion and opinion. I enjoyed reading the entries because they were straight to the point however, Waldie’s writing style made it very difficult to connect to the memoir and to follow what was happening in the city. Some entries are just a sentence or two long. Waldie’s suburban memoir is comprised of three hundred and sixteen short entries written mostly in the first and third person that when thought about carefully, create a composite and multilayered portrait of Lakewood. The writing style Waldie uses in his memoir is an interesting choice and is very informative once one carefully thinks about what Waldie says however, the memoir is very difficult to connect to. He also writes about his upbringing in the suburb. ![]() Waldie mainly writes about the development of Lakewood and how it came to be the first suburb. Lakewood is a suburb constructed right after World War II ended for the returning soldiers to have a place to live. Waldie’s memoir Holy Land, is about the suburban city Lakewood, in California where he grew up. ![]()
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