01723cam a2200313 i 4500 516895787 TxAuBib 20211202120000.0 210224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021007132 9781984855121 HRD 28.00 1984855123 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- Our country friends [BOOK] : a novel / Gary Shteyngart. First edition. New York : Random House, 2021. 317 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes 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 Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Provided by publisher. 20220114. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Epidemics Fiction. Quakers Fiction. Country life Fiction. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 Fiction.