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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mitch Epstein: Family Business: 20th Anniversary Edition

Mitch Epstein: Family Business: 20th Anniversary Edition

Epstein, Mitch
Bell, Susan

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $75.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 3969993369
ISBN13: 9783969993361
Publisher: Steidl
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 288
Language: English

An American Dream destroyed: how a fire and one family's financial demise echoed the city of Holyoke's rapid decline

In 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. Family Business 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 New York Times Book Review, 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.

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