Summer vacation may be coming to an end, but you can still embark on an unforgettable voyage with Gary Shteyngart, who, last year, chronicled his week aboard the Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built. Shteyngart—a novelist, humorist, and for seven nights, hapless passenger in a “Daddy’s Little Meatball” shirt—navigates an unfamiliar world of waterslides, $100,000 zirconia-encrusted chalices, and vicious status competition aboard a nearly 250,000-ton behemoth.
No cruise in history compares to the Icon of the Seas, and no writer documents the experience quite like Shteyngart.
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