A New York Times bestseller

In 1979 seven-year-old Gary Shteyngart and his parents left the Soviet Union for the consumerist paradise of America. As good Russian Jews, Gary’s parents were determined that he make something of himself. As a diminutive asthmatic with a runny nose, Gary knew his was to be a life of spectacular disappointments. He wasn’t wrong. In Little Failure he reveals how, by ending up a prize-winning novelist, he visited great shame on his family.