DAGMARA DOMINCZYK

The Lullaby of Polish Girls (Spiegel & Grau) 

Inspired by her parents’ political history and her family’s immigrant story, Dominczyk has written THE LULLABY OF POLISH GIRLS, a beautiful debut novel that follows the friendship of three women — Anna, Justyna and Kamila — from their coming of age in a small Polish town in the 1980s to their complicated adult lives.

When Anna and her parents emigrate to the United States in the 1980s, they settle in Brooklyn among immigrants of every stripe, yet Anna never quite feels that she belongs.  Then, at the age of twelve, she spends a summer in Kielce, Poland, with her grandmother.  She quickly develops a close friendship with beautiful Justyna and awkward Kamila.  With each passing summer when Anna returns, they renew that bond.

Over a decade later, when they have each gone their separate ways — Anna, an actress in New York; Kamila, a divorcee in Michigan, and Justyna, a wife and mother in Poland — a shocking murder pulls them together again in the place where their friendship first began. 

“The Lullaby of Polish Girls is a striking and vivid debut novel, absolutely buzzing with energy. Dagmara Dominczyk's freshly observed story about the intertwined lives of three friends is both sexy and sensitive, with a raw, openhearted center. Dominczyk's love for her complicated characters is apparent from the first page to the last, and by the novel's end, the reader cares for them just as deeply.”
— Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures

Dagmara Dominczyk was born in Poland and immigrated to New York City at the age of seven. She has acted in numerous films, TV series, and plays. Most recently she appeared in the motion picture Higher Ground and on Broadway in Golden Boy. She is married to the actor Patrick Wilson, with whom she has two sons. She lives in New Jersey.

Photo by Patrick Wilson  

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