SUZY HANSEN lived for more than a decade in Istanbul, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for publications including the New Yorker, Observer, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books and many more. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award. She has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bard College. She lives in New York.

Ambitious, well observed and lovingly written .. Hansen traces a story that illuminates a politics of mass migration and nationalist backlash that has resonances far beyond Turkey ... Where the book really comes alive is when history catches up to Hansen's own time ... [she] brilliantly captures Istanbul's light, it's pink and gold splendour [and] the little ways in which local prejudices begin to manifest

SUZY HANSEN lived for more than a decade in Istanbul, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for publications including the New Yorker, Observer, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books and many more. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award. She has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bard College. She lives in New York.

Ambitious, well observed and lovingly written .. Hansen traces a story that illuminates a politics of mass migration and nationalist backlash that has resonances far beyond Turkey ... Where the book really comes alive is when history catches up to Hansen's own time ... [she] brilliantly captures Istanbul's light, it's pink and gold splendour [and] the little ways in which local prejudices begin to manifest

SUZY HANSEN lived for more than a decade in Istanbul, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for publications including the New Yorker, Observer, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books and many more. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award. She has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bard College. She lives in New York.

Ambitious, well observed and lovingly written .. Hansen traces a story that illuminates a politics of mass migration and nationalist backlash that has resonances far beyond Turkey ... Where the book really comes alive is when history catches up to Hansen's own time ... [she] brilliantly captures Istanbul's light, it's pink and gold splendour [and] the little ways in which local prejudices begin to manifest