From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl's coming of age amid violent unrest--and her unexpected escape.
A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul's centuries-old G lhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there.
Perched in an abandoned stork's nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below.
Torn between the desire to forget all that .