In 'Vera' Gary Shteyngart depicts growing up in a world becoming ever more cruel - 48 hills
Ten-year-old Vera navigates obsessive lists, parental pressures, mixed-race family dynamics, and social-media-era anxieties while searching for identity, connection, and acceptance amid bias.
Invisible Wounds of Growing Up With a Narcissistic Parent
Children of narcissistic parents experience conditional, inconsistent love and emotional abandonment that forces them to mirror parental needs and suppress their authentic selves.