Dare to disappoint : growing up in Turkey
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
TEEN/GN/NONFICTION/SAMANCI,O

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2015
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374316983 (paperback), 0374316988 (paperback)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Margaret Ferguson Books."

"As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. In Ozge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. Her older sister was a perfect student, and her dad hoped Ozge would study hard, go to good schools, and become an engineer to find stability in their country's uncertain economic climate. But Ozge was a dreamer and wanted adventure. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Costeau? Or should she become a world-famous actress? This touching memoir shows how Ozge dared to overcome both her family and her country's expectations to find happiness by being an artist"--

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