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Little Failure: A Memoir

by Gary Shteyngart

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Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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