Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer whose work is largely satirical. He has written six novels and a memoir, among them Absurdistan, a darkly comic story of a Russian heir exiled from the American life he craves, and Super Sad True Love Story, a dystopian science fiction novel. Born in 1972, he also wrote The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Vera, or Faith, and Lake Success.