The Substitute Lesson (Sur)Living

What makes us who we are? How did we get there? The young author Emel Aydoğdu writes for a young audience. She writes about life from her perspective and addresses the question of what language does to people, how people are shaped by society and how sometimes what is left unsaid weighs more heavily than what is said. Using a personal story, something bigger than one's own experience unfolds; written for a classroom, it also takes place there. He...