“Lenny Hearts Eunice” by Gary Shteyngart
See, I haven’t lost sight of posting stories!
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/14/100614fi_fiction_shteyngart
This piece was featured in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” issue and is adapted from Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” which comes out this July.
It’s an (eventually) endearing and funny piece of speculative fiction set in the unspecified future where books aren’t read and employees are publicly rated based on their moods/attitude (“not a team playa”). But, even in such a sick sick world the love an awkward older Jewish man for his petite Asian lady cannot be squashed.
At first I wasn’t too enthusiastic to read about such a pervasive and personally unpalatable type of infatuation (okay, typical gross old white man love for small Asian lady named Eunice..how much more stereotypically Korean- American can her name be? Why does he have to mention how she is Asian and small sooo often?), but eventually I was “ROFLAARP-ing” (Rolling of Floor Looking at Addictive Rodent Pornography).. at least by the story’s own standards. Thankfully, Eunice has her own agenda and an edge to her.
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