The Idiot
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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.
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I loved this book. It is very funny, has a weird love interest which isn't really central to the plot, but also somehow is.
Good plane reading. While locations and details are obviously different, this book about a freshman at Harvard brought back all the feels of the academic lifestyle.
I enjoyed this one and the language-learning subplots and the way the narrator navigates the world, which she finds exceedingly puzzling.
