She is currently an artist and assistant professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. was a fun book to read, and I enjoyed following Özge into college. I learned a bit about Turkey's ban on imports, educational practices, and political tensions, but without any explicit lessons. I was reminded of, but life in Turkey was not as saccharine as American suburbia. The tone of the book, as well as the drawings, are funny and sweetly expressive. In Ozge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Always slightly off-kilter from the expectations of her family, teachers, and Ataturk (whose hagiographic presence in Turkey during the '80s was ubiquitous), Özge struggled to find her own path and dare to disappoint these expectations. 'As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey. I wanted to be on the other side of the binoculars." Her whole childhood was spent thus, trying to keep up with her smart and accomplished sister, who always seemed one step ahead, and to be in the limelight of her parent's approval.
"School," Özge says, "was the place where you could wave to your mother and your sister, who were watching you with binoculars. Her memoir begins with her six-year-old self using binoculars to see her sister waving from school across the street. Özge Samancı was born in 1975 in Izmir, Turkey.
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