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of the ways supposedly civilized communities can turn a blind eye to the most searing injustice

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The Idiot by Elif Batuman Current affair/History like a ring on theSelin turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. How does she find friends? How will she fall in love? How does she deal with how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is? At once clever and clueless, Batuman's heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self.