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A fascinating look at vacation homes and the owners and industry behind them. Dr.Janning insightfully explores how owners navigate attachments, nostalgia, communities, inequalities, and boundaries around the places, spaces and objects of second homes. Perfect for a college classroom, or your next vacation reading! --Arielle Kuperberg, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

A fascinating look at vacation homes and the owners and industry behind them. Dr.Janning insightfully explores how owners navigate attachments, nostalgia, communities, inequalities, and boundaries around the places, spaces and objects of second homes. Perfect for a college classroom, or your next vacation reading! --Arielle Kuperberg, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro In this comprehensive and sympathetic study, Michelle Janning untangles the twisted skeins of enchantment and authenticity, of magic and realism, that underlie the complexities of vacation homes. With an acute eye for contradiction and irony, Janning gently reveals the subtle paradoxes and silent compromises people make in pursuit of the enchanted vacation home, and along the way asks powerful questions about how people know they belong, what it means to be a good neighbor, and what their dreams of the future mean for the meanings of the present. --Allison Pugh, University of Virginia

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Michelle Janning is the Raymond and Elsie Gipson DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Her teaching and advising, is situated primarily within sociology of family, education, and material culture, but also includes interdisciplinary courses on homes, childhoods, popular culture, design, and community studies. Janning has written or edited numerous articles, chapters, and books about everyday family life, intimate relationships, material culture, design, and the digital and spatial geographies of social inequalities. These include The Stuff of Family Life: How our Homes Reflect our Lives (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age (Routledge2018), Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research (Praeger/ABC-CLIO 2019) (editor), and A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers (Routledge 2023).

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