I am now onto Gary Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan. The Russian Debutante's Handbook was a great story. Starting off in New York, Vladimir is a 25 year old working at the Emma Lazarus Society for inducting new immigrants. Switching girlfriends he realizes he needs more money to maintain his lifestyle. He travels to Florida to take a college entrance exam for a drug lord's son on a recommendation from his best friend where his a-hole is put at dire risk of being penetrated but for a well-placed punch and a cabbie willing to drive to NYC from Florida for $5000. Vladimir's problems multiply and multiply forcing him to flee for his life to Eastern Europe where he meets The Groundhog, a Russian mobster...hilarity ensues.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Russian Debutante's Handbook
I am now onto Gary Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan. The Russian Debutante's Handbook was a great story. Starting off in New York, Vladimir is a 25 year old working at the Emma Lazarus Society for inducting new immigrants. Switching girlfriends he realizes he needs more money to maintain his lifestyle. He travels to Florida to take a college entrance exam for a drug lord's son on a recommendation from his best friend where his a-hole is put at dire risk of being penetrated but for a well-placed punch and a cabbie willing to drive to NYC from Florida for $5000. Vladimir's problems multiply and multiply forcing him to flee for his life to Eastern Europe where he meets The Groundhog, a Russian mobster...hilarity ensues.
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Is this the book you sent to me that is now being enjoyed by the same person praying with my prayer cloth?
I picked the book up and read the first chapter. It's quite good and quite funny too.
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