Gary Shteyngart at The Brattle Theatre
When:
Thursday, Jul 24, 2025 6:00p -
7:30p
Thursday, Jul 24, 2025 6:00p -
7:30p
Where:
The Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$35
Hosted by:
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gary-shteyngart-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-1406091891699?aff=oddtdtcreator
Harvard Book Store welcomes Gary Shteyngart—bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends—for a discussion of his new novel Vera, or Faith. He will be joined in conversation by Tom Perrotta —bestselling author of nine works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
About Vera, or Faith
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.
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, to keep Daddy and Anne Mom togethe, 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 Gary Shteyngart is, in the words of The New York Times, "one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers."
TICKETING
Tickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of Vera, or Faith pre-signed by Gary Shteyngart.
Note: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.
