01727cam a2200325 i 4500 532088498 TxGeo 20211101120000.0 210224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021007132 9781984855121 hbk. 1984855123 hbk. (OCoLC)1280056838 TxGeo rda Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Our country friends : a novel / Gary Shteyngart. First edition. New York, NY : Random House, 2021. 317 pages : 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a young flame-thrower of an essayist, originally from the Carolinas; and a movie star, The Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family"-- Provided by publisher. 20220105. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Country life New York (State) Fiction. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Fiction. Quarantine Fiction. QS5