Little Failure is a humourous and touching memoir by writer Gary Shteyngart. The book riffs on, and is an homage to the long traditions of emigre lit, Jewish lit, Russian lit, growing up novels, memoirs, etc. (Nabokov, Roth, Salinger, etc.) It's told with considerable heart and humor of the self-deprecating kind. My fav comment from the book is that unless you come from a Jewish, Russian, Italian or Chinese family, you won't be able to comprehend the claustrophobic expression of love/control a family can dish out (I'm paraphrasing here). Whether or not it makes sense for such a young man to write a memoir, the book works as an open-ended narrative of a past dealt with.
For a review of the book by NY Times, click here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/books/review/little-failure-by-gary-shteyngart.html?_r=0
For a review of the book by NY Times, click here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/books/review/little-failure-by-gary-shteyngart.html?_r=0
