{"id":32028,"date":"2024-03-06T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=32028"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:27:16","slug":"tmr-book-club-discusses-the-applicant-with-author-nazli-koca","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/tmr-book-club-discusses-the-applicant-with-author-nazli-koca\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR Book Club Discusses &#8220;The Applicant&#8221; with author Nazli Koca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZIufu-spz4qHtBLdhR_htQrvW2ahYOu-Csn\"><strong>RSVP here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join TMR&#8217;s Book Club on March 31st at 1pm EST\/ 7pm CET to discuss Nazli Koca&#8217;s &#8220;The Applicant&#8221; and meet the author.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm\u2019s reach\u2014writerly ambitions, tight knit friendships, a place to call home\u2014Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin\u2019s nightlife, with little success. Right as the clock winds down on the hold on her visa, Leyla meets a conservative Swedish tourist and\u2014against her political convictions and better judgment\u2014begins 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\u2019s ghost still haunting their lives?<\/p>\n<p>While she waits for the German court\u2019s 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. &#8220;The Applicant&#8221; is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities, an original and darkly funny debut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nNazl\u0131 Koca is a writer and poet from Turkey who now lives in the US. 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