
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies--yet reads like a novel. It's also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named Kim starts a correspondence which details research she's conducting in...


The story of eleven American towns which never lived up to the expectations of their builders, but whose people stubbornly remain on, creating a lost city effect which the author describes in exquisite detail. 67 black-and-white photographs.
