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.
My Review:
Holiday Country comes out next week on January 9, 2024, and you can purchase HERE!
Back when my summer evenings revolved entirely around the park, my curfew had always been the sunset. I'd watch the horizon from the top of a slide until that thin arc of orange sank into a mainland silhouette. As the halo of light around the islands faded, I would scream goodbye to everyone and everyone would scream goodbye to me and I would race down to the water, veer left, and reach the gates of the villa panting and electric with adrenaline. A second later, my mother would come up behind me, hair dripping wet, back from her evening swim.What dictated, still dictates, our lives is the movement of the planet, rather than the measurement of that movement. Nobody ever watches the clock.
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