{"product_id":"avoidance-9781555973674","title":"Avoidance","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeremy struggles to write his dissertation on the Amish and the laws of expulsion. How does someone, excluded entirely from the only community they have ever known, live the rest of their life? After extensive interviews with Beulah--a young woman banished--Jeremy is no closer to understanding her choice than he is to his own peculiar exile. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamp Ironwood, set in the Vermont woods, is more than a summer distraction for restless adolescent boys--it is a place to belong. And not unlike the Amish community, it is a place where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. For Jeremy, first as a camper and later as the co-director, the usual camp activities become their own kind of ritual that binds the community. But when he is blindsided by the seductive charm of Max, a fourteen-year-old boy from Manhattan, all arms and legs and attitude, Jeremy must confront his desires, and worse yet, uncover the dark secrets of his beloved Camp Ironwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the powerful and daring novel \u003ci\u003eAvoidance\u003c\/i\u003e, Lowenthal elegantly draws unexpected parallels between the Amish and Camp Ironwood. By doing so, he ingeniously explores an age-old dilemma: individual desires versus the good of a community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555973674\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.02w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 1254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/14\/2002 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2003 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooksense '76 Nov\/Dec 2002\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Lowenthal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659639156892,"sku":"9781555973674","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1ae65e3d-f4c1-4673-b106-dada2a0a5b53.jpg?v=1603895184","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/avoidance-9781555973674","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}