A review by laineyg
Either/Or by Elif Batuman

4.0

“It wasn't that I hadn't known these things, but that at some point, without realizing it, I had persuaded myself that I was different— that my honesty and non-lameness wouldn't be punished like that, because I had some special skill, some self-sufficiency, an ability to be alone. I always had been alone, when every other person in my family had insisted on having someone around to have sex with.”