leah reviewed The idiot by Elif Batuman
thoughts on the idiot
5 stars
this is my favorite book of all time. and likely the most well-written book i've ever read. or maybe it's just because i think in the same way that selin does.
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.