Tens of thousands of Soviet Jews have settled in the United States in the past three decades, but few have left as lasting an impression as Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart. For many years, his parents considered him a “little failure” because he did not take their advice and become a lawyer. Instead, much to their consternation, […]
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