A Strangeness in My Mind Epigram Books Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2016) After growing up in the

After growing up in the most food-obsessed city in the world

In this poignant

They have been lived out by people across all walks of life—businesspeople

You'll learn to avoid the bad carbs

the narrative sequences form a deeply poetic

A Strangeness in My Mind Epigram Books Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2016) After growing up in theA cross between a history manual and private memoir, A Strangeness in My Mind is above all a love letter to Istanbul in all its faded, messy, dusty glory. At the age of twelve, Mevlut Karata comes to Istanbul, hoping to make it rich yet luck never seems to be on his side. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family