Vera, or Faith: A Novel

ISBN: 0593595092

Author: Shteyngart, Gary

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A poignant and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country FriendsLONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Vox, Denver Public Library, Seattle Times, The Cap Times, Kirkus ReviewsPull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant Harriet the Spy-esque delight.-People (Book of the Week)Genius . . . [a] miracle.-The Washington PostA novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.-Karen RussellVery funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.-Elif BatumanA brilliant fable about childhood, and so much more, in our broken country.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A must-read.-Los Angeles TimesShteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.-BookPage (starred review)The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world.Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to What Maisie Knew, Henry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, Vera, or Faith demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of The New York Times, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers."

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