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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Discuss Gary Shteyngart's "Little Failure"
DESCRIPTION:In advance of the 2018 Stroum Lectures with the bestselling author and satirist Gary Shteyngart\, read excerpts from Shetyngart’s memoir Little Failure and engage in a discussion over dinner with Prof. Sasha Senderovich. \nLittle Failure is a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of Shteyngart’s history – and his family’s – that delves deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and follows them as immigrants to the United States.\n \nRSVP below for location; dinner provided. Copies of Little Failure available.\n \nRegister for the May 7 & 9 2018 Stroum Lectures here.\n  \nGet ready for the conversation\nCheck out Jewish in Seattle ‘s related coverage:  \n\nQ&A with Gary Shteyngart (in drawings)\n“Immigrant Literature Should Make You a Little Uncomfortable” by Sasha Senderovich\n\n \nGary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and immigrated to the United States seven years later. He is the author of three bestselling novels: The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)\, Absurdistan (2006)\, and Super Sad True Love Story (2010). His newest novel\, Lake Success\, will be published in 2018.\n \nSasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He teaches courses in Jewish literature and culture as well as Russian literature and film.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-discuss-gary-shteyngarts-little-failure/
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