{"product_id":"vera-or-faith-1","title":"Vera, or Faith","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A poignant 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 \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOur Country Friends\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTime, Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, Oprah Daily, Vox, \u003c\/i\u003e Denver Public Library, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times, The Cap Times, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant \u003ci\u003eHarriet the Spy\u003c\/i\u003e-esque delight.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (Book of the Week)\u003cbr\u003e\"Genius . . . [a] miracle.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\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.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\"A must-read.\"\u003ci\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth biting and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eVera, or Faith \u003c\/i\u003eis a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew, \u003c\/i\u003eHenry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, \u003ci\u003eVera, or Faith\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"one of his generation's most exhilarating writers.\"","brand":"Gary Shteyngart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47475009257708,"sku":"9780593595114","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593595114.jpg?v=1775424256","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/vera-or-faith-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}