01600cam a2200277 i 4500 539665557 TxAuBib 20211129120000.0 211021s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781984855121 hardcover $27.00 1984855123 hardcover $27.00 TxAuBib rda Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Our country friends : a novel / Gary Shteyngart. First edition. New York : 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. 20211129. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Country life Fiction. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Fiction.