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Gary Shteyngart: Little Failure, A Memoir

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

"Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Advocate are pleased to welcome back the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart, for a reading and discussion of his memoir, Little Failure. After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart's prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world."

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