{"product_id":"how-to-get-into-the-twin-palms-9780983247180","title":"How To Get Into the Twin Palms","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow To Get Into the Twin Palms\u003c\/strong\u003e by Waclawiak, Karolina. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780983247180.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Just as Anya reinvents herself, Waclawiaks novel (her first) reinvents\nthe immigration story...At its most illuminating, How to Get Into the\nTwin Palms movingly portrays a protagonist intent on both creating and\ndestroying herself, on burning brightly even as she goes up in smoke.\"\n-New York Times Book Review\n\n\"Karolina Waclawiaks debut novel How to Get into the Twin Palms is a quietly stunning exploration of assimilation and personal identity.\"\n- David Gutkowski, Largehearted Boys Favorite Novels of 2012\n\n\"Karolina Waclawiaks debut novel with the spunky little Two Dollar Radio press effectively upends the immigrant-novel formula (more vodka, less upwardly mobile striving), but shes also done a great job at depicting the desperate measures that truly lonely people can take in an attempt to belong. Her complicated antiheroine, Anya, carries this moody story right to its disastrous end.\"- Jennifer Croll, Georgia Straight Best Books of the Year\n\"Twin Palms has resonance, humor laid over a pulsing knot of emotion,\nand a clear, clean voice that youll want to read more of in the\nfuture.\"\n- Insatiable Booksluts, Read This Book!\n\n\"Waclawiak writes about loneliness, isolation, and determination in a refreshing and quirky way.\"\n- Michele Filgate, New York Magazine\n\n\"Waclawiaks mix of sad, dark humor is compelling and creates an\nother-ness thats hard to shake. In the end, taking the bus along with\nAnya-now car-less-we feel, like our narrator, a little singed and\ncovered in ash. But heck, maybe thats not a bad way to start over?\"\n- Larissa Zimberoff, The Rumpus\n\n\"The immigrant novel is a hallowed literary tradition, but\nBeliever deputy editor Waclawiaks fresh and bizarre reboot makes us\nwant to read a million more.\"\n- Emily Temple, Flavorwires 10 New Must Reads for July\n\n\"A taut debut... [that] strikes with the creeping suddenness of a brush fire.\"\n-Publishers Weekly(*starred*)\n\n\"Waclawiak takes the immigrant novel and spins it on its head. A great addition to 1.5 generation literature, beautifully written, funny and touching.\"\n-Gary Shteyngart\n\nHow to Get Into the Twin Palms is the story of Anya, a young woman living alone in a Russian neighborhood in Los Angeles, who struggles to retain her parents Polish culture while trying to assimilate into her newly adopted community.\n\nAnya stalks the nearby Twin Palms nightclub, the pinnacle of exclusivity in the Russian community. Desperate not only to gain entrance into the club but to belong there, Anya begins a perilous pursuit for Lev, a Russian gangster who frequents the seemingly impenetrable world of the Twin Palms.\n\nKarolina Waclawiak received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She is Deputy Editor of The Believer and lives and writes in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44982169567285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0983247188","price":32.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780983247180_f2e35f18-6ee6-4e7a-87bc-58a904973c31.jpg?v=1778804628","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/how-to-get-into-the-twin-palms-9780983247180","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}