Everything you need to understand or teach Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.
In Gary Shteyngart's novel Our Country Friends, at the start of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Alexander Senderovsky invites his best friends to come and stay with his family on his private, rural property. Though Karen, Vinod, Ed, Dee, and the Actor all come together as friends, they are unprepared to spend the next four months in isolation together. Over the course of the spring and summer, complicated relational dynamics both bring the characters together and threaten to tear them apart. The novel explores themes including loneliness, love, and family.
Our Country Friends Lesson Plans contain 127 pages of teaching material, including: