Super sad true love story

By Gary Shteyngart, Adam Grupper, Ali Ahn

Subjects: Social status, mortality, Longevity, Fictional Works, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Books and reading, Janitors, Adult children of immigrants, Korean Americans, Russian Americans, nyt:hardcover_fiction=2010-08-15, College graduates, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, satire, Fiction, Social life and customs, love, Man-woman relationships, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-08-15, satire, Dystopias, New york (n.y.), fiction, Riots

Description: From the New York Times [review][1] written by Michiko Kakutani, June 2010: *"Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance — a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It’s a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings."* [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/books/27book.html