User:Auract/Super Sad True Love Story

Super Sad True Love Story is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart. The novel takes place in a near-future dystopian society where life is dominated by media and retail. The protagonist, Leonard (Lenny) Abramov who is a middle-aged, middle class, and otherwise unremarkable, falls madly and irreparably in love with Eunice Park, a young Korean-American. The chapters alternate between diary entries from the old fashioned Lenny and Eunice's e-mail correspondence on her "GlobalTeens" account. In the background of what appears to be a love story that oscillates between superficiality and despair, a grim political situation unravels. America is on the brim of economical collapse: the totalitarian Bipartisan government's main commission is to encourage and promote consumerism while eliminating political dissidents.