Little Failure: A Memoir

I was truly a little sad when I finished this book. I listened to an audio version narrated by the wonderfully colorful voice of Jonathan Todd Ross, and by half-way through I felt like like said narrator and I were on the verge of best-friendship, so entertaining were his stories. Gary Shteyngart (born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad at the end of the Soviet Union) gives a deeply poignant account of his life so far (he wrote the book at 37 years old...read more