![]() ![]() I love Roxane Gay's Goodreads review where she says, "Several times, I thought, “I am not smart enough to understand everything that is happening here,” but I kept reading." This is exactly how I felt, but I also sensed that Selin and Ivan often didn't understand what they were talking about either, in that way of college students who think they know it all and desperately need to keep up the facade, both to each other and themselves. She starts a friendship with a compelling student named Ivan, unavailable but charismatic and irresistible, eventually following him to Hungary for a summer teaching program.īut this is less about the events-it will drag, if you like a plot-heavy novel-than about the disorientation that sometimes seems inevitable at 19. ![]() ![]() Deadpan and sometimes very funny, Selin is also an innocent. Language becomes her means of searching for connection and truth, both through her linguistic studies and through writing. A high school overachiever, Selin now finds herself uncertain, sometimes flailing, and searching, both in her academics and her social life-a state relatable to many a college freshman. This is the strangely compelling story of Selin, a freshman at Harvard in the 90s-significantly, at the advent of email. ![]()
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