Absurdistan
Novels about “the immigrant experience” are usually sentimental tales of pluck and dignity. Gary Shteyngart‘s Absurdistan is not one of those novels. The hero of the book is a 300 pound Russian named Misha Vainberg who boasts that he has huge loft apartment in Manhattan and a Puerto Rican-Mexican-Irish-German stripper girlfriend from the Bronx. Shteyngart tells Kurt Andersen why he wanted to satirize the wild and crazy immigrant experience.
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