Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
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