Discover TikTok''s new favourite book.''I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it'' Emma Cline, author of The Girls Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn''t expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self... _______________- PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT: ''A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story'' Observer ''Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique'' Sheila Heti ''Full of zingy one-liners'' Financial Times ''Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes'' Curtis Sittenfeld ''Delightful and slyly funny'' Red