Discover Tik Tok’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