Our Country Friends Summary
Gary Shteyngart

Everything you need to understand or teach Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.

  • Our Country Friends Summary & Study Guide
  • 30 Our Country Friends Lessons
  • 20 Activities
  • 180 Multiple Choice Questions
  • 60 Short Essay Questions
  • 20 Essay Questions
  • Pre-Made Tests and Quizzes
  • ...and more

Our Country Friends Overview

In Gary Shteyngart's novel Our Country Friends, at the start of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Alexander Senderovsky invites his best friends to come and stay with his family on his private, rural property. Though Karen, Vinod, Ed, Dee, and the Actor all come together as friends, they are unprepared to spend the next four months in isolation together. Over the course of the spring and summer, complicated relational dynamics both bring the characters together and threaten to tear them apart. The novel explores themes including loneliness, love, and family. 

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