Unnatural Man

She tried to remind herself that she was in love, that tenderness awaited her, and that she would be a fool to let it slip by. But she needed him to know her thoughts about that 50.1 percent. She kept seeing a world in which Shiva was bullied and mocked, in which nice kids like Arturo were few and far between, a world in which even Barry’s money would not protect him. If there would be any money left.

— Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success (2018)