![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they're a crucial component of the story, one that resounds with honesty and humor. Samanci's caricatures of herself and the people around her, often drawn wide-eyed with surprise, make the sporadic episodes of political strife and urban violence oddly incongruous. ![]() an artist!" that her true self is revealed. It's only when friends tutoring her admire the doodles on her math notes "I love the coffee-stain people," one says. 2016, 19 January, Michael Berry, Sun-Sentinel, Book review: Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey. Ozge Samanci Paperback 9780374316983 As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional. 2016, 29 January, Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey. (Meanwhile, she idolizes Jacques Cousteau.) Year after year, she takes exams, tries to keep up with her academically talented older sister, and wrestles with a crushing sense of inadequacy. 2016, 31 January, Ozge Samanci, The Daily Beast, Being an Immigrant Is Now Even Harder. If teenage Samanci doesn't gain admission to Turkey's finest university and become an engineer, her father worries that she'll die penniless. It's a simple collection of her childhood memories (sent out to buy milk, she instead sneaks into the local school to find her sister) a description of life under a military government ("Every Turk is born a soldier!" her textbook declares) and a fearless examination of her struggle to escape her father's expectations. Turkish artist Samanci's graphic memoir tells many stories. ![]()
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