Gary Shteyngart to Publish Memoir

Gary Shteyngart will follow up his three best-selling novels with a memoir, his publisher, Random House, announced on Wednesday. Mr. Shteyngart’s editor, David Ebershoff, described the book as the “candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family that comes to America in 1979 to find its future.”

The memoir, “Little Failure,” is scheduled for release in January 2014.

Mr. Shteyngart, the author of “The Debutante’s Handbook,” “Absurdistan” and “Super Sad True Story,” said in a statement: “I’ve finally written a book that isn’t a ribald satire and because it’s actually based on my life, contains almost no sex whatsoever. I’ve lived this troubled life so others don’t have to. Learn from my failure, please.”