Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (2010)

Lenny Abramov, the son of a Russian immigrant whose mind is still in the previous century, falls in love with Eunice Park, a twenty-something struggling to navigate superficiality in the modern world. Set in a dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and materialism, Park and Abramov are different sides of the same coin—one governed by corporate America.

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