SIXTY-NINE CENTS

Sixty-Nine Cents

Sixty-Nine Cents

Question 1

When Shteyngart was fourteen years old, he lost his Russian accentmeans that in the story three things Shteyngart wanted to do in his new incarnation: go to Florida, where Shteyngart understood that our nations best and brightest had built themselves the sandy, vice-filled paradise; have the girl, preferably native-born, tell him that she liked him in some way; and eat all his meals at McDonald's. Shteyngart did not have the pleasure of eating at McDonald's often. Shteyngart parents believed that going to restaurants and buying clothes not sold by weight on Orchard Street were ...