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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "The Applicant" with author Nazli Koca
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin TMR’s Book Club on March 31st at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET to discuss Nazli Koca’s “The Applicant” and meet the author. \nAbout the book:\nIt’s 2017 and Leyla\, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis\, losing her student visa\, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her failure. \nIncreasingly distant from what used to be at arm’s reach—writerly ambitions\, tight knit friendships\, a place to call home—Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin’s nightlife\, with little success. Right as the clock winds down on the hold on her visa\, Leyla meets a conservative Swedish tourist and—against her political convictions and better judgment—begins to fall in love\, or something like it. Will she accept an IKEA life with the Volvo salesman and relinquish her creative dreams\, or return to Turkey to her mother and sister\, codependent and enmeshed\, her father’s ghost still haunting their lives? \nWhile she waits for the German court’s verdict on her future\, in the pages of her diary\, Leyla begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present. An indelible character at once precocious and imperiled\, Leyla gives voice to the working-class and immigrant struggle to find safety\, self-expression\, and happiness. “The Applicant” is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities\, an original and darkly funny debut. \nAbout the author: \nNazlı Koca is a writer and poet from Turkey who now lives in the US. Her writing has appeared in the Threepenny Review\, Bookforum\, and Second Factory\, among other outlets. “The Applicant” is her first novel. \nRSVP here
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