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Fiction round-up: Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart; The Expansion Project by Ben Pester; Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin
Thursday, August 21, 2025ROUND pegs in square holes are given voice in this summer’s fiction. In Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Atlantic Books, £16.99 (£15.29);978-1-83895-880-0), ten-year-old Vera observes her blended family of Russian Jewish father and “Boston Brahm...