EAN: 9781646221608

THE FOUR HUMORS - MINA SECKIN KARTONIERT (TB)

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who  rather than
grieving her father's untimely death  seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows
obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. [A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel.
—Lauren LeBlanc  The New York Times Book Review Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete
plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul  visit her father’s grave
and study for the MCAT. Instead  she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and
self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient
medicine. Also on Sibel’s mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey  her
energetic but distraught younger sister  and her devoted grandmother  who  Sibel comes to learn
carries a harrowing secret. Delving into her family’s history  the narrative weaves through
periods of political unrest in Turkey  from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with
pathos and humor  Sibel’s search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to
see how she might heal herself through the care of others  including her own family and its
long-fractured relationships.

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