This novel is about multiple families intersecting around culture, marriage, death, life, abortion, Asia Minor, Djinn’s, and not so oblique literary references. This starts with an aborted abortion. Taking place in multiple settings, namely California and Istanbul, this novel deals with a family of Turks and a family of Armenians being unwittingly and unwantingly shoved together. There’s some second marriages, sex, life, coffee, talks about the world. And so forth. Overall the writing itself I liked just fine and found a lot of the novel […]