Last year, Flannel Guy ROI offered a great book suggestion: “Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart. I don’t read a lot of fiction but I gave it a go since it came highly recommended.
The book’s theme surprised me. It’s about a lonely man, his girlfriend and her friends; a group of people who live their lives in a worrisome version of the future. The more I read, the more I saw the parallels between Shteyngart's work of fiction and modern life.
The characters live in a time where America has fallen from grace. The economy is in shambles, with the country deeply indebted to other nations—namely China, and the gap between the haves and the have nots is now a chasm.
Wait…it gets better.
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