Discover TikTok's new favourite book.'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The GirlsSelin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is:- How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations- An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante- A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying- Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthoodBut most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self..._______________-PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT:'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer'Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique' Sheila Heti'Full of zingy one-liners' Financial Times'Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes' Curtis Sittenfeld'Delightful and slyly funny' Red