The Idiot by Elif Batuman [in Library Journal]
18 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Turkish American
Batuman makes her fiction debut already a literary darling: a New Yorker staff writer since 2010 and the author of a much-adored essay collection, The Possessed, about the pleasurable intricacies of reading Russian literature. The year is 1995, and Turkish American 18-year-old Selin enters Harvard. She...