Little Failure

"Gary Shteyngart is a memoirist not out for revenge but for truth, and his quest takes him to various interesting places in this lively and forthcoming book. An only child who immigrated to Queens from Leningrad with his parents in 1979, he not only gives the reader an intimate look at his own self but also puts his parents under the very strong memoirist’s magnifying lens. The results can be uncomfortable, to say the least, but are always compelling. This is a mature book in all the important ways: evenhanded toward the parents who raised him, and not trying to score points or twist the knife but just trying to understand."

"I also loved Barbra Streisand's audiobook of her memoir, "My Name Is Barbra." She's a goddess, a phenomenal storyteller and laugh-out-loud funny."