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LAKE SUCCESS by Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart’s darkly humorous novel sends Barry Cohen - a failing hedge-fund manager whose largest talent is for self-delusion - crashing blindly through an America whose enervated emotional and physical state eerily mirrors his own. Will redemption come? In the author’s masterful hands we cannot predict the outcome, but we certainly want to stay reading until we do.

Review by Robin