MJCCA Book Fest In Your Living Room Live Presents Gary Shteyngart in conversation with Nathan Englander – Our Country Friends Virtual Event
Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and “an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart” (The Washington Post).
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta welcomes bestselling author Gary Shteyngart for a discussion of his latest novel, “Our Country Friends,” on Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 8 PM (EST). Shteyngart will appear in conversation with author Nathan Englander.
This program is presented in partnership with the National JCC Literary Consortium.
Tickets options are as follows:
-Admit one for $11 (does not include a copy of the book); or
-Admit one for $36 (includes a hardcover copy of “Our Country Friends.” Price covers shipping.) All books will be shipped after the event.
About the Book
It’s March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, “Our Country Friends” is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller “Super Sad True Love Story.”
About the Author
Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir “Little Failure” (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels “Super Sad True Love Story” (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse nPrize), “Absurdistan,” and “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction). His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.
