I really don’t know how to approach a discussion of this book. It is a satire, yes.  Of our rampant consumerism, of our self-absorbed nature, of our total ignorance.  Of America at the start of the 2010s, an America headed rapidly towards the America of the not-too-distant future of Shteyngart’s book.  Because that’s what the book’s really about.  To me, anyway.  A reminder to those of us living in the right-here-and-now that this is where we’re headed if we don’t […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Dystopian, Fiction, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, The Tournament of Books 2011