The Bastard of Istanbul RUSA CODES Reading List Nominee for Romance (2019) “McDougall traveled to Crete to

“McDougall traveled to Crete to examine the physical and mental capacity of Greek war heroes [and] studied natural movement

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The Bastard of Istanbul RUSA CODES Reading List Nominee for Romance (2019) “McDougall traveled to Crete toFrom one of Turkeys most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her countrys violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the bastard of the title, Asya, a nineteen year old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live