Car Palace

Their families feared concentration camps, the gulag in Siberia, executions. But the children, Ed and Donna, emigrated to the safe shores of the USA and met as teenagers. They married young, were adventurous together, successful together, and still together as young parents in pursuit of the American Dream they’re pushed to their breaking points as their serial entrepreneurship careens out of control, trapping them in a work prison of their own making.

The memoir CAR PALACE plunges the reader into the anxious seas of risk in the land of American commerce and literature, revealing several regions of the soul—marriage, morals, ambition and fear—and asks, what does it mean to control your own destiny?

A story driven by men and women working the seams of the fractured American Dream, stitching hope and ambition to overcome risk. Based on events 25-years in the making, the Lithuanian-born author, Gediminas Trimakas, portrays a perilous journey across a bridge joining commerce and literature in the Second Gilded Age of Inequality. A memoir ripped from the Great American Experience—and more timely than ever.

Gediminas Trimakas spent his childhood in Europe and teenage years in New York City. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in fiction, a graduate degree in finance, and served with distinction in the US Army Signal Corps. He published three novels (as Holland Kane) —Morning Light won much praise: “… a threnody of desire … enjoyable reading.” Publishers Weekly; “… an intriguing web between flawed, complex characters …” Kirkus Reviews; “ … a poignant novel …” Midwest Book Review. As editor for the Sonora Review he also published prose by Maxine Kumin, the United States poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. Car Palace is his first nonfiction book. The hardcover edition is forthcoming in 2017. Please visit the author’s website: http://trimakasauthor.com




Other ISBNs - 978-0-9858293-8-4, $16.95 (Softcover); 978-0-9858293-9-1, $3.99 (Digital Edition)