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Her work was selected for two volumes of the best american essays series and her first book, the possessed, was a national book. Sit down with one of the greatest storytellers of our time as he talks about the eternal conflicts of fathers and sons, of east and west, of tradition and modernity. Born in new york city to turkish parents, she grew up in new jersey. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom. The idiot by elif batuman penguin random house canada. The author of a widely acclaimed collection of essays titled the possessed.
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