The Books & Books Literary Foundation is proud to present an evening with Gary Shteyngart discussing 
Vera, or Faith: A Novel
 (Random House, $28). He will be in conversation with Mitchell Kaplan. 
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of
 
Super Sad True Love Story
 
and
 
Our Country Friends
***Please note:
 This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. 
Tickets are REQUIRED. 
Each ticket admits one (1) guest into the venue and includes one (1) copy of VERA, OR FAITH ($28 + tax). If you would like to bring a guest, you must add our $5 guest fee. This fee does not include a copy and only accounts for one guest. Books will be handed out upon entry. Can't make the event? 
Buy your copy here.
About the Book:
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of
 
Super Sad True Love Story
 
and
 
Our Country Friends
“A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”—Karen Russell
“Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman
A
 
Washington Post
 
and
 
Literary Hub
 
Most Anticipated Book of 2025
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.
Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world.
Both biting and deeply moving, 
Vera, or Faith
 
is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to 
What Maisie Knew,
 
Henry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, 
Vera, or Faith
 demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of 
The New York Times
, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers."
About the Author:
Gary Shteyngart
 was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, 
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, 
Absurdistan
, was one of the 
The New York Times Book Review
's 10 Best Books of the Year
.
 His novel 
Super Sad True Love Story
 won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and became one of the most iconic novels of the decade. His memoir, 
Little Failure,
 
was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His most recent novel is the 
New York Times
 bestseller 
Our Country Friends.
 
His books have been published in thirty countries. He lives in New York with his wife and son.
About the Moderator:
Mitchell Kaplan
, a Miami Beach native, founded the independent bookstore chain Books & Books in 1982. Books & Books was named “Publishers’ Weekly Bookstore of the Year” in 2015. He is the co-founder of Miami Book Fair, a former president of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), and received the National Book Foundation’s prestigious “Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community” in 2011. He is the host of the podcast, “The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan” and with his partner Paula Mazur, formed the Mazur/Kaplan film production company to bring books to the screen.
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