TY  - BOOK
AU  - Batuman,Elif
TI  - Either/Or
SN  - 9781787333871
U1  - 813.6 23/eng/20220609
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, USA
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Turkish Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Women college students
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Cambridge (Mass.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - US & CAN fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographic references
N2  - In 1996, Selin, the bookish, language-obsessed daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives at Harvard for her sophomore year. Having spent the summer teaching English in the Hungarian countryside while obsessing over her crush, Ivan, Selin is determined to untangle from her unrequited infatuation, and shed her freshman year innocence. With her English syllabus as a rough guide, and her more worldly and confident peers as instructors, she resolves to become her own main character and throws herself into undergrad life: joining the literary magazine, attending dorm parties, and taking it into her own hands to spark her sexual awakening. A Russophile at heart and set on getting herself - and her improving Russian-language skills - to the motherland, Selin takes a paying summer job with the student-run guidebook, but is sent not to a different or exotic locale, but, disappointingly, Turkey. But the Turkey of her childhood trips quickly takes on new and rich meaning, as Selin travels from city to city, absorbing the land of her ancestors. She meets people on her way, men who reveal new parts of herself and others who heighten the contradictions she sees in the world around her. Every moment becomes an opportunity seize the day, to move away from others' expectations and towards a life of her own making
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