{"product_id":"vera-or-faith-by-gary-shteyngart","title":"Vera, or Faith By Gary Shteyngart","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant, sharp-eyed, 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Country Friends\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHarriet the Spy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e–esque delight.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Book of the Week)\u003cbr\u003e“Genius . . . [a] miracle.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”—Karen Russell\u003cbr\u003e“Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant fable about childhood, and so much more, in our broken country.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e“A must-read.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBookPage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle, Vulture, Town \u0026amp; Country, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Book Riot, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, AV Club, Hey Alma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObservant, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth biting and deeply moving, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVera, or Faith\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat Maisie Knew,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVera, or Faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \"one of his generation's most exhilarating writers.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47512871698652,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47512871731420,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/1_ad14e9b5-765c-4436-b543-7a920f285108.png?v=1769782540","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/vera-or-faith-by-gary-shteyngart","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}