Gary Shteyngart (SHTINE-gart) is a New Yorker. But he is also a Russian. He immigrated as a young boy, and has lived his life between the two cultures ever since. He examines the humor and the tragedy of his life, and tens of thousands of other people just like him in his best-selling novel "The Russian Debutante's Handbook". It follows the story of Vladimir Girshkin (vlah-DEE-MEER GEAR-shkin) a young Russian man who works for an immigrant resettlement organization in New York. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr, it's fiction, but he drew it from some very real experiences. Gary Shteyngart will read from his novel "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" at the Barnes and Noble store in Edina tonight at 7:30