His parents, who had been prevented from practicing Judaism in the Soviet Union, sent Shteyngart to a Hebrew school in Queens, where he felt lost and despised. Still, the relocation meant little Shteyngart was suddenly living in the country he had been taught was the enemy. " really made this calculation of whether to leave her family behind and have me grow up fairly healthy, or stay with them and have me grow up an invalid, and. "When I was growing up, the ambulance would come almost every week to take me to the hospital because there were no other treatments for asthma," he says. S.) He tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that his health was a deciding factor in his parents' decision to move. (This was soon after America negotiated a trade deal with the Soviets that included allowing Jews to immigrate to Israel, Canada or the U. Novelist Gary Shteyngart was a wheezing, asthmatic and fearful 7-year-old when he and his parents emigrated from the Soviet Union to Queens, New York, in 1979. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Little Failure Subtitle A Memoir Author Gary Shteyngart
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