
Gabfest Reads: Coming of Age in the Nineties
Political Gabfest
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Introduction
Elf batuman is an author and a journalist at the new yorker with a ph d. in comparative literature from stanford university. Her debut novel, the idiot, came out in 20 17 and was a finalist for the pullitzer. In it, a young turkish girl named selin recounts the lessons, travels and the crush that defined her freshman year at Harvard.
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