Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, LRB and the Guardian. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is the author of The Possessed, The Idiot and Either/Or.

Wildly original, creatively rambling... the funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter

Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, LRB and the Guardian. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is the author of The Possessed, The Idiot and Either/Or.

Wildly original, creatively rambling... the funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter

Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, LRB and the Guardian. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is the author of The Possessed, The Idiot and Either/Or.

Wildly original, creatively rambling... the funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter