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The Idiot

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VINTAGE
  • fiction
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Turkish Americans
  • Women college students
  • Coming of age
  • Literary
  • Contemporary Women
  • Bildungsromans

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.