Elementary school was almost militaristic with the ever present Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first president. The eighties in Turkey was a time of political turmoil and military oppression followed by rapid economic and social change, not all for the best. Naturally there is so much in common with my childhood, although we grew up in different cities. I felt guilty when they occasionally caught me smiling. The students were trying to get through difficult math questions while I was enjoying this book. I got a chance to read the book during a final exam I was administering on Saturday evening. I waiting for one of our conversations about my childhood in Turkey. I actually got the book for my daughter, who likes graphic novels. Our paths may have crossed back in those days. It is a graphic novel about growing up in Turkey in the eighties, written by someone from my generation- only a year younger from what I gather from the story- who attended the same university (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) and the same department ( Mathematics) as I did. I came across this book on a friend’s feed in Facebook.
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