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In "Lost in Place," Mark Salzman reflects on his childhood in ridgefield, Connecticut, where he was the eldest of a middle‑class family. From the age of six, he was an eccentric with lofty but unfulfilled aspirations, standing out among both his conventional parents—his mother a piano teacher and his father a social worker—and his siblings. His recollections are framed humorously and wistfully, creating a light‑hearted travelogue of his adolescent life in a suburban America growing up in the mid‑20th century.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Mark Salzman
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