{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-family-business-20th-anniversary-edition-9783969993361","title":"Mitch Epstein: Family Business: 20th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Dream destroyed: how a fire and one family's financial demise echoed the city of Holyoke's rapid decline\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1999, two boys barely in their teens were so bored that they started a fire in a boarded-up apartment building in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The fire spread and engulfed an entire city block. Mitch Epstein's father owned the building and was sued for $15 million, which he didn't have. Epstein's father also owned a once successful furniture store that now faced liquidation. \u003ci\u003eFamily Business\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic work about the demise of a Jewish immigrant dynasty. It traces the fall of a New England town from industrial giant to drug-dealing capital in four chapters: \"Store,\" \"Property,\" \"Town\" and \"Home.\" As Andy Grundberg wrote in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"This book elegantly and eloquently traces the decline of Holyoke, Massachusetts, a once prosperous industrial town, through the poignant example of Mitch Epstein's own family's declining fortunes and psychological disintegration.\"\u003cbr\u003eSurprising, hard-hitting and haunting, the book includes photographs, video storyboards and stills, interviews and dialogues. In \u003ci\u003eFamily Business\u003c\/i\u003e, Epstein has invented a unique mixed-media novel whose conceptual ambitions are matched by its fearless humanity. This is the 20th anniversary edition of a seminal photobook, which quickly became a model of complex visual storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969993361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Mitch Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507609202869,"sku":"9783969993361","price":63.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ee963618-129e-4869-8169-f629f61527b3.jpg?v=1778566109","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mitch-epstein-family-business-20th-anniversary-edition-9783969993361","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}