Either/Or
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In 1996, Selin, the bookish, language-obsessed daughter of Turkish
immigrants, arrives at Harvard University for her second 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 first 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 house
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 to
seize the day, to move away from others' expectations and towards a
life of her own making. With great observation, wit, and empathy,
Elif Batuman perfectly captures the mystifying uncertainties to be
found at the cusp of adulthood. Filled with the mundanities
alongside the comedy of youth, and as entertaining as it is
intellectual, Either/Or captures a forging of a self, and is a
wonderfully complex illustration of a woman finding the freedom to
step outside the script.
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Elif Batuman ,
Jonathan Cape
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Elif Batuman,
Jonathan Cape
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