How to Get Into the Twin Palms - Paperback

by Karolina Waclawiak (Author), Ed Park (Introduction by)

*One of the Best Books of 2012 --Salon

"Waclawiak's novel reinvents the immigration story. How to Get Into the Twin Palms movingly portrays a protagonist intent on both creating and destroying herself, on burning brightly even as she goes up in smoke."
--Abigail Deutsch, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice

How To Get Into the Twin Palms is the story of Anya, a young woman living in a Russian neighborhood in Los Angeles, who struggles between retaining her parents' Polish culture and trying to assimilate into her adopted community. She lusts after Lev, a Russian man who frequents the Twin Palms nightclub down the block from Anya's apartment. It is Anya's wish to gain entrance to this seeminly exclusive club. How To Get Into the Twin Palms is a really funny and often moving book that provides a unique twist on the immigrant story, and provides a credible portrait of the city of Los Angeles, literally burning to the ground.

Author Biography

Karolina Waclawiak is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, How to Into the Twin Palms, The Invaders, and Life Events. She lives in Los Angeles.

Ed Park (Introduction) is the author of the forthcoming collection An Oral History of Atlantis and the novels Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A cofounder of The Believer, he has worked as a newspaper editor, movie reviewer, book editor, and writing professor. His fiction and essays appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, McSweeney's, Harper's, Bookforum, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family.