Times like these demand great comic novels and thank God we have Gary Shteyngart to provide. His shortest, sweetest and most perfectly constructed novel ever, “Vera, or Faith” is here to save the day. Or at least the day that you read it.

Vera Bradford-Shmulkin is a 10-year-old girl, living in New York City with her family in the near future. They have a self-driving car named Stella and an AI chessboard named Kaspie. Vera lives with her dad Igor, a Russian immigrant magazine editor, her stepmother Anne Mom, and her little half-brother Dylan.

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