Writer Gary Shteyngart set sail on the inaugural voyage of the biggest cruise ship ever built-the Icon of the Seas-in search of the "real" America. (And maybe to throw a great suite party along the way.) What he found instead, like many a great novelist before him, was a far more isolating experience. Shteyngart recounts his "seven agonizing nights" aboard a giant floating mall full of memorable characters, bad entertainment, even worse food-and the ever-present desire to keep up.
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