Gary Shteyngart with Ross Benjamin - Vera, or Faith
Tue, Nov 11 at 6pm
“Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman.
Named “one of his generation’s most exhilarating writers” (The New York Times), Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story, joins us to share his newest novel, Vera, or Faith. A blended family of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASPs are caught in the throes of an unstable country and their fraying bonds. Vera, or Faith follows the titular character on her journey to find her birth mother in order to discover at last who she really is, and how to ensure love’s survival in this great, mad, imploding world.
In conversation with scholar and translator Ross Benjamin.
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