Shteyngart, Gary

"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a young flame-thrower of an essayist, originally from the Carolinas; and a movie star, The Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family"--Provided by publisher.

"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth."--Provided by publisher.

Misha Vainberg longs to return to New York City, but since his grandfather killed a prominent Oklahoma businessman, Misha knows he is stuck in Russia, where he becomes the hapless Minister of Multicultural Affairs and finds himself fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to lead a normal life.

Gary Shteyngart discusses his life with a focus on his immigration to the United States and his writing career.

Sometime in the future thirty-nine-year-old Lenny Abramov works for a firm that offers immortality for its wealthy clients in a world crushed by a credit crisis and violence. Still Lenny tries to convince his love, Eunice, that it is worthwhile be alive.