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Vera, or Faith [text (large print)] : A Novel.
'Vera, or Faith' is a bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter. From the author of 'Our Country Friends'.
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- ISBN: 9798217083664
- Physical Description: 384 pages
- Edition: Large print ed.
- Publisher: Canada : Diversified Publishing, 2025.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / Literary |
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- Random House, Inc.
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends
âA novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.ââKaren Russell
âVery funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.ââElif Batuman
âA brilliant fable about childhood, and so much more, in our broken country.ââKirkus Reviews (starred review)
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.
Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world.
Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to What Maisie Knew, Henry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, Vera, or Faith demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of The New York Times, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers."
