A near-future America where everyone wears an äppärät around their neck broadcasting their credit rating and screwability to everyone in the room, the dollar is pegged to the yuan, and the country is being run into default by a party called Bipartisan. Lenny Abramov is thirty-nine, works selling life extension to high-net-worth clients, still reads paper books, which people find disgusting, and is in love with Eunice Park, twenty-four, who communicates entirely in text streams. Shteyngart wrote it in 2010 and got the tone of everything that followed almost exactly right. It’s a comedy and it’s about a man who is going to be left behind.
Super Sad True Love Story