Little Failure: A memoir by Gary Shteyngart

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Little Failure: A memoir by Gary ShteyngartISBN: 9780241146682 Hamish Hamilton, January 2014 368 pages, Paperback Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka 'Little Failure' which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. A candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and

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