Lake Success

Spectacular. NPR   Uproariously funny. The Boston Globe  An artistic triumph. San Francisco Chronicle    A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced. The Washington Post  Shteyngart s best book. The Seattle Times

The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR S FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review  NPR  The Washington Post   O: The Oprah Magazine  Mother Jones  Glamour   Library Journal   Kirkus Reviews   Newsday  Pamela Paul, KQED  Financial Times   The Globe and Mail

Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to America.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 

The fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation are what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions both individual and collective that grip this strange land getting stranger. The New York Times Book Review 

Shteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is