Let's make this birthday one to remember.

53 years old (Born on July 05, 1972)

Happy Birthday, Gary Shteyngart! May your day be filled with absurdly delightful moments and super sad true love stories—minus the sadness, of course. Your satirical brilliance in "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" and "Absurdistan" has given us endless laughs (and existential crises), while your memoir "Little Failure" reminded us that even life's missteps can become literary gold.

Here's to another year of turning life's quirks into unforgettable prose. Keep dazzling readers with your sharp wit and keen observations; after all, nobody captures humanity’s charming dysfunction quite like you do. Cheers to more successes—and fewer little failures—in the coming year!