Coming to America: Shteyngart writes first memoir
Author To Speak in Clinton Hill at ‘Brooklyn Voices’ Series
At age 41, Gary Shteyngart seems awfully young to be writing a memoir. But readers of “Little Failure” soon discover that he’s been precocious all his life.
The award-winning author of “Super Sad True Love Story,” “Absurdistan” and “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” will speak as part of the Brooklyn Voices lecture series on Wednesday, Jan. 8 to discuss his latest work.
The book is Shteyngart’s funny, often moving, chronicle of his family’s journey from St. Petersburg, Russia, then known as Leningrad, to the U.S. in 1979. It’s also a brutally honest record of his personal transformation from fearful, sickly child to angry, self-destructive youth to professional success and mensch.