01560cam a2200349 i 4500 286820852 TxGeo 20170307120000.0 160805s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016029596 9781594205613 hbk. 1594205612 hbk. (OCoLC)952647422 TxGeo rda Batuman, Elif, 1977- The idiot / Elif Batuman. New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2017. 423 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. "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"--Dust jacket flap. 20170320. Women college students Fiction. Turkish Americans Fiction. Electronic mail messages Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Psychological fiction. QS5