HOTEL SOLITAIRE

The heroine of Hotel Solitaire is a young woman working for a shadowy financial entity who travels the world doing deals that are far more morally compromised than she realizes, all while looking for her younger brother who disappeared a decade before. "At its heart Hotel Solitaire is a family drama set in the high-stakes world of global finance, moving from upstate New York to Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai," Shteyngart says. "It's about how power is disseminated in the world today and what happens when a spreadsheet jockey trades in her Excel for a Glock 22."