'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 classic American road adventure. Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better' Literary Review
'Genius... A miracle' Washington Post
'Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here... A poignant Harriet the Spy-esque delight' People

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other 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 21st 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 give 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: 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 wondrous 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, Gary Shteyngart's newest novel is among his best and shows why, in the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, he is 'a national treasure'.

"This is satire full of feeling, saturated with dark, comedic grief for what we all could lose." - Observer

"Vera or Faith leaves us with a potent dose of childlike bemusement at our world, its strangeness, its delicateness, its incoherence." - Financial Times

"Shteyngart sets about his material with abundant energy and charm. He sketches a convincing caricature of a near-future USA and provides a stoical heroine that we can uncomplicatedly root for." - Guardian

"Rewarding for the reader is the character of Vera, whose anxious, quixotic world view makes particular what would otherwise be commonplace." - Daily Mail

"This novel's revelation lies in its tenderness and grace... The portrait that emerges of a family and a nation on the brink is certainly funny - darkly, sorrowfully so." - Irish Mail on Sunday

"Vera, or Faith is like some fabulous, hitherto-unknown creature that's been let out of its bottle and set free. It begins to seem that there's nothing Gary Shteyngart can't do." - Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Day and The Hours

"Vera is easily one of my favorite characters in fiction, and this is now one of my favorite novels." - Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

"A beautiful, extraordinary, completely brilliant book that is so humane it makes me feel more human." - Joe Weisberg, creator of The Americans