Midnight at the Cinema Palace

Midnight at the Cinema PalaceThis tender, exuberant novel about a young man navigating coming of age in 90s San Francisco is for readers of Garth Greenwell and Andr Aciman. Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesnt realize is fading awaySan Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the dawn of the tech revolution. Out of college, out of the closet, and transplanted from the Midwest, Walter is irresistibly drawn from his shell when he

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his pregnant wife

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Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other

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