- American literature
An on-the-spectrum child pursues her history while trying to save her disintegrating family in a tightening-up country.
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Contemporary, classical in form, prestige and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Gary Shteyngart
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593595091
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First sentence
“School started and it was awful.”
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