PositiveThe BafflerObnoxiously Manhattan ... Vera’s precocious humility goes a long way toward safeguarding the book from its immediate predecessors’ descent into rote dramas of the urban elite ... Shteyngart hasn’t been this endearing since his earlier work ... [There\'s a] pointless and ham-fisted subplot ... Fearless and real in confronting the consequences, tragedy is neither averted nor overdramatized into bathos. It’s where Shetyngart is his most honest ... A coming-of-age story of evergreen quality.
