![]() In the meantime, the totalitarian Bipartisan Party government's main mission is to encourage and promote consumerism while eliminating political dissidents, under US President Cortez. In the twilight nation, the only three industries left are Media, Credit, and Retail. America is on the brink of economic collapse, threatened by its Chinese creditors. In the background of what appears to be a love story that oscillates between superficiality and despair, a grim political situation unravels. The chapters alternate between profuse diary entries from the old-fashioned Lenny and Eunice's biting e-mail correspondence on her "GlobalTeens" account. The son of a Russian immigrant, protagonist Leonard (Lenny) Abramov, a middle-aged, middle class, otherwise unremarkable man whose mentality is still in the past century, falls madly in love with Eunice Park, a young Korean-American from New Jersey struggling with materialism and the pressures of her traditional Korean family. The novel takes place in a near-future dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and retail. Super Sad True Love Story is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart.
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