İnci Atrek. (2024). Holiday Country: A Novel. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

İnci Atrek. 2024. Holiday Country: A Novel. Macmillan Audio.

İnci Atrek, Holiday Country: A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2024.

İnci Atrek. Holiday Country: A Novel. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2024.

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A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman's dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast
"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"A book full of pleasures." —Kirkus
Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, endless olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons.
When Levent, a mysterious man from her mother's past, shows up in their town, Ada can't help but imagine a different future for her mother—one that promises a return to home, to love, to happiness. But while playing matchmaker, Ada has to come to terms with her own intensifying attraction to Levent. Does the future she's fighting for belong to her mother—or to her alone?
Lush and evocative, İnci Atrek's Holiday Country is a rapturous meditation about what it means to experience being of two worlds, the limitations and freedom of a life in translation, and the intricacies of a love triangle that stretches across generations and continents.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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     October 2, 2023
     A young Turkish American woman comes of age during an annual visit to her family’s Aegean villa in Atrek’s engrossing debut. Ada, 19, and her mother, Meltem, are spending the summer with Ada’s grandmother, where Ada delights each year in shedding her California skin and the days are delineated mostly by her deepening tan. This year, however, her parents’ marriage is on the brink of collapse, prompting Ada to consider her mother anew. She worries, for one thing, that Meltem’s divided nationalities have dulled her personality (“How easily language can slip away after years abroad.... Just one more thing my father has taken from her,” Ada thinks as she listens to her mother fumble in her native Turkish). When Ada meets Levent, a handsome former lover of Meltem’s from her younger years in Istanbul, she tries to nudge them into an affair, believing it would restore the shine of Meltem’s youth. Nothing happens between them, though, and after Levent announces he’s returning to Istanbul, Ada, by now interested in pursuing her own romance with him, schemes a way to join him. This development strains credulity, and the story gallops toward a scandalous if too-tidy conclusion. Still, Atrek gloriously portrays the seaside setting, and she expertly explores the crackling tension between mother and daughter. This finely rendered debut heralds the arrival of a smart, bold voice. Agent: Andrea Blatt, WME.

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   • content: Ayse Babahan thoughtfully narrates this coming-of-age story. Ada feels forever suspended between two states of being. She is one person during the school year in California and another during summers spent with her mother and grandmother in a holiday villa along the Turkish coast. In her nineteenth year, when a chance encounter occurs and an old romance rekindles, all the disparate elements of her life collide. Babahan's subtle narration captures Ada's immersion in the liminal space of young adulthood. Her voice and inflections waver between jaded and childlike as Ada rethinks what she truly wants from the future and what she believes her mother needs from the past. Babahan smoothly incorporates Turkish dialect where appropriate. N.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"A book full of pleasures." —Kirkus
Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, endless olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons.
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