The Idiot by Elif Batuman

464 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary funny reflective slow-paced
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A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes i...

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