{"product_id":"vera-or-faith","title":"Vera, or Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of 21st century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage give him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eObservant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world.\u003cbr\u003eBoth biting and deeply moving,\u003cem\u003e Vera, or Faith\u003c\/em\u003e is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and wondrous eyes of a child.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Random House\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 059397946X\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780593979464\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gary Shteyngart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51542621159690,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781838958800.jpg?v=1753199105","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/vera-or-faith","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}