Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

pbA iNEW YORK TIMES/i NOTABLE BOOKbr / br /SELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYbr /MICHIKO KAKUTANI, iTHE NEW YORK TIMES/ibr / br /NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYbr /iThe Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine/i • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon • Slate • Minneapolis iStar Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Charlotte Observer • The Globe and Mail • Vancouver Sun • Montreal Gazette • Kirkus Reviews/ibr //bbr /In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?br //p

strongAmazon Best of the Month, August 2010/strong: Welcome to the day after tomorrow. In Gary Shteyngart's near-future New York, the dollar has been pegged to the yuan, the American Restoration Authority is on high security alert, and Lenny Abramov, the middle-aged possessor of a decent credit score but an absurdly low--and embarrassingly public--Male Hotness rating, is in love with the young Eunice Park. Like many of the clients of his employer, the Post-Human Services division of the Staatling-Wapachung Corporation, he'd also like to live forever, but all he really wants is to love Eunice. And for a time, despite the traditional challenges of their gaps in age and ethnicity and the more modern hurdle of an oppressively networked culture that makes your most private identity as transparent as the Onionskin jeans that are all the rage, he does. emSuper Sad True Love Story/em is as corrosively hilarious as you'd expect from the satirist of emAbsurdistan/em and emThe Russian Debutante's Handbook/em, but what may surprise you are the moments when the satire hits bedrock and the story becomes--no air quotes required--sad, true, and very much a love story. em--Tom Nissley/em

pbA iNEW YORK TIMES/i NOTABLE BOOKbr brSELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYbrMICHIKO KAKUTANI, iTHE NEW YORK TIMES/ibr brNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYbriThe Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine/i • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon • Slate • Minneapolis iStar Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Charlotte Observer • The Globe and Mail • Vancouver Sun • Montreal Gazette • Kirkus Reviews/ibr/bbrIn the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?br/p