little failure

Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart was not one of my favorite books that I had to read in my lifetime. However I thought the author was very weird in some parts of the memoir. I was very confused when the author kept on mentioning his lover/girlfriend in the text. I was very confused because he didn't give his girlfriend a name. I mean if you say you loved somebody wouldn't you think he would name her? Another thing that confused me is that this story is supposed to be a memoir. So the readers are supposed to believe everything the author is saying. However in the middle of the story he mentions how he lied to us about everything we just read. So I was very confused with this author and thats why I wasn't such a big fan of his work.