Still Here Lara Vapnyar by Lara Vapnyar 9781101905524, 9781101905531, 1101905522, 1101905530 instant download after payment.

A warm, ambitious, and beautifully moving novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul"
Vica, Vadik, Sergey, and Regina are émigrés living in New York City. Each in their mid-thirties, they're old friends from Russia who've remained close, though the pressures of daily life in America bear down on them. Vica, medical researcher and mother of one, must keep her Staten Island household together while her husband, Sergey, spins through a cycle of lost jobs as an analyst, hoping his great ideas for a hot new app will someday make him rich. Regina, once an esteemed translator, is now married to a wealthy investor and spends her days holed up in a sweeping Tribeca loft, curtains drawn, watching television and eating takeout; and Vadik, ever in search of a sense of newness, works hard as a programmer to keep his new apartment, new girlfriend, and new life in Williamsburg totally pristine.
When Sergey hones his app idea—he...