The Short Version: The acclaimed author of The Russian Debutante’s Handjob and Super True Sad Story and Lenin and His Magical Goose brings us an intimate portrait of being born one Igor Shteyngart in Soviet Leningrad.  We follow young Igor into America – into being called Gary, Gnu, Scary Gary – with his family and see both an immigrant story and a universal story of trying to live up to the things our parents want us to be.  The Review: It was hard to […]

Categories: Memoir, Non-Fiction • Tags: Advance Review, America, Book Review, Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure, Memoir, New York, Non-Fiction, Post-Soviet Politics, Random Penguin House, Reviews, Russia