Lara Vapnyar

Biography

Lara Vapnyar is the author of two collections of short stories: There Are Jews in My House and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love. Her novel The Scent of Pine is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2014. 

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FICTION / Winter 2014

Virtual Grave

By Lara Vapnyar ,  Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

About a year ago, Sergey had stopped looking for a job. He now spent his time scouting the internet, hoping to come up with an app idea that would make him successful. It was the banal apps that sold. If only Sergey could think of something...