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all things literary, book reviews + recommendations, home + belonging, My Most Anticipated Books Series, Turkish Literature, women's fiction, World literature14 Comments

Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying

March 26, 2023March 31, 2023 Neriman K., PhD

Sure, I had the privilege of choosing to leave my homeland, but how much of that choice was really mine to begin with? Continue reading Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying

all things literary, book reviews + recommendations, books, books + writers, freedom, home + belonging, Turkish Literature, women's fiction1 Comment

Ece Temelkuran’s Together: Heart-Shaped Stones, Whitman & Us

November 20, 2021February 24, 2022 Neriman K., PhD

Together is, indeed, a crucial text that is brutally, lovingly, and magically real. It is the ultimate celebration of our kind and what we can achieve to not only survive but to survive beautifully. Continue reading Ece Temelkuran’s Together: Heart-Shaped Stones, Whitman & Us

all things literary, book reviews + recommendations, meditations on home + belonging, Middle Eastern +Unapologetically Muslim Reading Challenge, Turkish Literature, women's fiction, World literature4 Comments

A Turkish American Story: Selma Ekrem’s ‘Unveiled’

August 20, 2020March 2, 2021 Neriman K., PhD

Ekrem’s is a story of displacement and self-realization—a story of reconciliation between Eastern and Western cultural codes within a transcultural space as she grows into independence as a woman and an immigrant. Continue reading A Turkish American Story: Selma Ekrem’s ‘Unveiled’

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