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A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Womens Prize for FictionAn addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down.Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses YouEasily the funniest book Ive read this year.GQA 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 in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivans friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selins summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitchperfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet selfeffacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batumans fiction is unguarded against both lifes affronts and its beautyand has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 Mashable One Elle Magazine The New York Times Bookpage Vogue NPR Buzzfeed The Millions
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