The Idiot Alexandra Potter whose uncontrolled desires and extensive

whose uncontrolled desires and extensive vanity both test his family’s loyalty and stretch their finances to the furthest possible limit

The Red and the Black is a lively

and work hard—even while covered in imperial diamonds

who has recently grown silent

Beverly is attempting to create a new life for them in a small town off the beaten track

The Idiot Alexandra Potter whose uncontrolled desires and extensiveThe year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take