This month we read The Idiot for Another in the Books bookclub!!
Summary:
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, and befriends her charismatic and worldly classmate, Svetlana.
Almost by accident, Selin begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student. 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 Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana.
Selin's 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 confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With emotional and intellectual sensitivity, wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.
Enjoy!!!
Martin: 4/5
Shannon: 3.5/5
Monse: 3.5/5
Total overall: 3.66/5
March Bookclub Pick (Shannons): Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson
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