Lara Vapnyar emigrated from Russia to New York in 1994 and began publishing short stories in English in 2002. She lives on Staten Island and is pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at CUNY Graduate Center.
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Loneliness & Company (2024)
Charlee Dyroff
"Loneliness & Company is a stunning novel, full of lyricism, brilliance and quiet integrity, boldly tackling the most complex philosophical ideas. How do you define loneliness that plagues all of us, increasingly so? Is it a personal affliction or an existential condition? I'll be thinking about this novel for a long time."
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Joan is Okay (2022)
Weike Wang
"Brilliant, precise, excruciatingly funny . . . Joan wins your deepest admiration at the same time as her vulnerability breaks your heart."
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The New Adventures of Helen (2021)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
"There is no other writer who can blend the absurd and the real in such a scary, amazing and wonderful way."
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