"The Idiot" By Elif Batuman. Penguin Press. March 2017. 432 pages. $27The talented young New Yorker writer Elif Batuman has just published a novel that has some of us scratching our heads. Flush with the minutia of daily life including a generous and brilliant layering of humor, a bigger story arc seems to be missing. It's an intriguing risk that may simply speak to a generational divide.Entering Harvard University at 18, the story's narrator, Selin Karadag, describes in tedious often [...]
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