VERA, OR FAITH

A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever Karen Russell Very funny very sad very sharp and completely delightful Elif Batuman A classic American road adventure Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better Literary Review Genius A miracle Washington Post Pull up a beach chair The book of the summer is here A poignant Harriet the Spy esque delight People The Bradford Shmulkin family is falling apart A very modern blend of Russian Jewish Korean and New England WASP they love each other 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 21st 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 give 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 a friend at school Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together and to meet her bir