Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

 

Like the first half very much but was disappointed with the second which I found hasty, melodramatic, and mis-focused. 

Set squarely in the current moment, the novel follows five months in upstate New York where three old dear college friends and several others sequester to escape the virus.

But he had to think like a character in a Chekhov play, forever taunted by desires but trapped in a life much too small to accommodate the entirety of a human being. [120]