Thursday, July 19, 2018

Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart



As a securities trader, Barry Cohen is living the American Dream. But when things are wound too tight, he comes unhinged leaving behind his family, a beautiful Indian American wife Seema, and his autistic son, Shiva. In Trump’s America, Barry embarks on a search for that all-important currency: authenticity. Clutching his stable of luxury watches, Barry sets off on a Greyhound bus ride through “real” America. The dissonance is on overdrive here — the people he meets are doomed to their mediocre fates but as a wealthy man he can do no wrong, his wealth always cushioning any fall or misstep.

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