Summary of Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure

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#1 I graduated college in 1996, and that same year, I worked as a paralegal for a civil rights law firm. I was not cut out for the law, and I never will be. My parents were disappointed in me, and so was I.

#2 I would spend hours at the Strand Book Annex, searching for someone just like me on the back cover of a book. I was looking for the sloppy turn of phrase or the MFA cliché that would mark the book inferior to the one gestating in my office computer.

#3 I was in love with a woman who had already criticized my bookshelves for containing material that was either too lightweight or too masculine. I had spent four years after college without so much as kissing a girl. I was lonely.

#4 I began to panic when I thought about the girl I loved at the time. I saw her as a censor of my bookshelf and my tastes, and I thought about how she was taller than me and her gray teeth.

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Ebook: 29 April 2022