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Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOMB Magazine<\/a> | Bloodletting: Mina Se\u00e7kin Interviewed by Mina Hamedi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mina Se\u00e7kin and Alicia Kroell in Conversation<\/a> | Don’t Write Alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electric Literature<\/a> | A Turkish American Novel About A Melancholic Young Woman in Istanbul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PEN Ten<\/a> | An Interview with Mina Se\u00e7kin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shondaland<\/a> | Mina Se\u00e7kin\u2019s Dynamic Debut Novel, \u2018The Four Humors\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SKYLIT<\/a> | Mina Seckin, \u201dFOUR HUMORS\u201d w\/ Hilary Leichter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debutiful<\/a> | Community, Roadblocks, and Identity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithub<\/a> | Mina Se\u00e7kin on Ferrante, Nabokov, and The Phantom Tollbooth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Platform Magazine<\/a> with Nidhi Verma<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Review of Books<\/a> | The God of Small Things with Mina Se\u00e7kin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debut Spotlight<\/a> | Mina Se\u00e7kin: The Four Humors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism<\/a> | Unmaking the Family Secret: An Interview with Mina Se\u00e7kin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayat Life<\/a> | Mina Se\u00e7kin Debuts First Novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel.” \u2014Lauren LeBlanc, The New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“An engrossing exploration of national identity, the meaning of family and loss, and what happens when a family hides its central secret . . . Read The Four Humors for an insider’s travelogue of Istanbul and its volatile modern political history, and for the tastes and feel of contemporary Turkish culture. Read it too, to get to know a wonderful set of characters\u2014women in all their flaws and generosities\u2014and for an astute account of what it means to be an immigrant in America. Finally, read it to follow one young woman’s beautifully-rendered journey into her past, so that she can wrest herself from stasis and step into her future.” \u2014Martha Ann Toll, NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If stories expand us, secrets shrink us, as this deep, wise, and intricate debut novel by Mina Se\u00e7kin illustrates.” \u2014Jeffrey Ann Goudie, The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A deliciously bittersweet meditation on the elastic, shifting narratives we weave from the fragile threads of our daily existence, the people around us, and the places we call home . . . What holds these unraveling characters together is Se\u00e7kin\u2019s precise, direct prose, which balances the grotesque with the beautiful, the funny with the genuinely moving. With lyricism and blunt, humorous honesty, Se\u00e7kin pokes and prods at the complexities of family history and personal identity from different angles.” \u2014Malena Steelberg, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fans of Elif Batuman\u2019s The Idiot should take note of Mina Se\u00e7kin\u2019s debut The Four Humors, another wry and intelligent novel that engages with the Turkish diaspora in America. As twenty-year-old Sibel seeks relief from an unshakable headache, she ends up delving into her family history and dubious medicinal theories, all of which Se\u00e7kin captures with a mordant wisdom that belies her own young age.” \u2014Chicago Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Like the Russian soap operas that Sibel and her grandmother watch devotedly, The Four Humors unfolds at a leisurely pace, with an extensive cast of characters and a multigenerational plot . . . You’ll find yourself hooked.” \u2014Thane Tierney, BookPage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Se\u00e7kin\u2019s lively prose and empathic portrayal of her characters make for an evocative and entertaining first novel.” \u2014Booklist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[A] perceptive debut . . . Se\u00e7kin moves with poise from Sibel\u2019s modern-day, deadpan tone to the stories of her older relatives, which are related as stand-alone narratives and are often entangled with Turkey\u2019s tempestuous political history . . . A moving family story.” \u2014Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A convincing, often dryly humorous sense of life in a constantly changing city . . . A captivating treat.” \u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“At turns playful and serious … One of the pleasures of The Four Humors <\/em>is encountering a multifaceted and complex culture which will be unfamiliar to most Americans, for whom Turkey has been viewed through the limited prism of the Cold War or post 9\/11 military adventurism.” \u2014Charles Holdefer, Full Stop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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