Either/Or: From the bestselling author of THE IDIOT

.... Nor will I want to read any other book, ever, after finishing this one. That's the highest compliment I can pay a novel. Ms Batuman gives me the courage to be more honest in my own writing. I want to be best friends with Selin. What more can I say?

This is an intelligent, reflective novel. The style is personal and engaging. The ending was good because there were times in ‘The Idiot’ that I despaired for her. Happy endings are good.

Either or is so good I wish selin was real 💔

Imagine being on a long-haul flight, and you are sat next to Phoebe Bridgers and whoever her best friend at the time is. This book is that annoying.

Me encantó todo sobre la historia de Selin ojalá hagan una película del libro

A persona we can find around, her intrapersonal communication & her pov for anyother thing is different yet so common. I enjoyed it..

This star rating reflects my opinion on the state of the book, not the contents; I haven't read it yet. The cover was visibly bent in several places, and the bottom seemed to have suffered some scrapes; there's glue peeling off. Also, the book doesn't seem very clean.

I don’t understand the point of this book. Beautiful linguistics, that’s it. Just as random as the first volume about Selin.

I loved the prequel to this novel, The Idiot, but its sequel (which can also stand alone) was even better. This is mostly a campus novel of ideas, kind of like reading the development of a mind that might one day grow up to narrate a book like Outline by Rachel Cusk...or, um, write the very book you’re reading. It is a joy to be inside the protagonist Selin’s head. It brought me back to my early twenties in college, trying to figure out sexuality and gender dynamics as someone who also craves attention and love. Its queerness is implicit, about a young woman who does not yet really have a concept of bisexuality as an option.Shortly before writing this novel, Batuman met the woman she hopes to spend the rest of her life with. She’s said in interviews that it made her examine why she had only dated men up to that point. This novel is a reverse-engineering of the way society, literature, and philosophy lull us into a culture of “compulsory heterosexuality,” as Adrienne Rich put it. Times are changing, but especially for those of us born before Gen Z, this exploration will be particularly fruitful. It’s like having a fantastic conversation with your smartest friend from college.