How to Get into the Twin Palms

9 best books like How to Get into the Twin Palms (Karolina Waclawiak): Dept. of Speculation, Mostly Dead Things, The Topeka School, Everything Belongs to the Future, Apathy and Other Small Victories, Clown Girl, Dora: A Headcase, Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture, Juliet the Maniac

Dept. of Speculation

Author	Jenny Offill
ISBN	0385350813

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love...

Mostly Dead Things

Author	Kristen Arnett
ISBN	1947793306

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...

The Topeka School

Author	Ben Lerner
ISBN	0374277788

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right

Adam Gordon...

Everything Belongs to the Future

Author	Laurie Penny
ISBN	0765388278

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become?...

Apathy and Other Small Victories

Author	Paul Neilan
ISBN	0312351747

The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely...

Clown Girl

Author	Monica Drake
ISBN	0976631156

i am re-writing this review & re-rating this book with a lower rating thanks to a barrage of comments from the book's author, as well as the author's obnoxious ass-kissing friends. these folks made me really stop & think about how i felt about this book, & i came to the conclusion that i liked...

Dora: A Headcase

Author	Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN	0983477574

Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse...

Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture

Author	Arthur Evans
ISBN	0915480018

This controversial work, published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, investigates the historical relationship between homosexuality and paganism with a focus on old Europe and the persecution of pagans by Christians during the early formation of the Christian religion. It compares this history with present-day...

Juliet the Maniac

Author	Juliet Escoria
ISBN	1612197590

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recovery

Ambitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon...