wasn't easy as an anxious, asthmatic kid who didn't speak English or the other language he was being taught at a Hebrew day school. Shteyngart was born in the Soviet Union, and he and his parents emigrated to Queens, New York, when he was 7. He comes from a Russian Jewish family, and many of his ancestors suffered terribly in World War II and in Stalin's labor camps. Our guest, writer Gary Shteyngart, has appeared on FRESH AIR three times before because he's a great storyteller and because his novels and a memoir have drawn on an eventful and, at times, difficult life. I'm Dave Davies in today for Terry Gross.
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