EAN: 9781646221608

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This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who rather than grieving her father's untimely death seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. [A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel. —Lauren LeBlanc The New York Times Book Review Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul visit her father’s grave and study for the MCAT. Instead she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine. Also on Sibel’s mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey her energetic but distraught younger sister and her devoted grandmother who Sibel comes to learn carries a harrowing secret. Delving into her family’s history the narrative weaves through periods of political unrest in Turkey from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with pathos and humor Sibel’s search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to see how she might heal herself through the care of others including her own family and its long-fractured relationships.

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