Delightfully bittersweet ... His canny fiction doesn’t make me any happier to be living through the times he is memorializing, but it does provide commiseration and amusement, maybe even a bit of faith in the possibility of something better on some distant horizon.
Tastes at first like a cherry-flavored gumdrop, but it’ll burn a hole in your tongue ... Long been Shteyngart’s genius, his ability to make us feel the toothache under the laughter ... As the comedy seeps out of this story like air from a tire, the novel keeps picking up speed until it’s grinding on its rims.
Charming ... Combining deep humanity with Gary Shteyngart's customary intelligence and wit, Vera, or Faith is a reminder of why he's a writer whose works are good ones to keep close at hand in challenging times.
