Narrating Oneself, Narrating America: Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure: A Memoir (2014).

Abstract

This article analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure: A Memoir (2014) as a migrant’s tale providing a valuable insight into the search for the self on the threshold of several cultures. It argues that in addition to illuminating Shteyngart’s Russian-Jewish immigrant experience in America, the memoir reflects more universal concerns and uncertainties inherent in the process of acculturation while at the same time exposing pitfalls of multiculturalism.