{"product_id":"family-business-3","title":"Family Business","description":"An American Dream destroyed: how a fire and one family?s financial demise echoed the city of Holyoke?s rapid declineIn 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.?\u003cbr\u003eSurprising, hard-hitting and haunting, the book includes photographs, video storyboards and stills, interviews and dialogues. In Family Business, 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.","brand":"Steidl Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58480028385615,"sku":"9783969993361","price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9783969993361_1-family-business.jpg?v=1786766147","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/family-business-3","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}