The Washington Post, October 31st, 2004
THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT INSANITIES By Elif Shafak. Farrar Straus Giroux. 351 pp. $25 Elif Shafak was born in France and raised in Spain, has published four novels in Turkish and now teaches at the University of Michigan. She may be intimate with the disorientation of the expatriate, but she does not restrict herself to a literal definition of border- crossing. As the characters in her exuberant, uneven first novel in English make clear, feeling like an alien has little to do with visa status. A shabby, rambling house in a Boston suburb is home to three graduate students in three different field...
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