ISBN Walking on the Ceiling

A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past - her country's and her own - and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories.A young woman named Nunu moves to Paris to start over, leaving behind her childhood home in Istanbul and the aftermath of her mother's death. She knows no one in the city; she longs for connection. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night, developing an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family and her home. She also begins to confront her past relationships, her mother's silence and anger, her father's death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens, as does Nunu's fear of revealing too much to M., of giving too much of herself away. An unguarded glimpse of a young woman's coming into her own, Walking on the Ceiling is about the complexities of memory, storytelling, and the places, real and imagined, we can't escape.