The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Popularity 149
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.
fictionIdentity (Psychology)Turkish AmericansWomen college studentsComing of ageLiteraryContemporary WomenBildungsromansNew York Times reviewedFiction, coming of ageFiction, psychologicalFiction, women