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Defne and Mete, the couple at the center of Savaş’s new story, “Many Worlds,” were strangers when they met in California, but they soon realized how much they had in common. “Everyone from Turkey who ended up at a graduate school in the U.S. was bound to have attended one of four schools,” Savaş writes. “It wasn’t impossible that their families were acquainted.” Now that Defne and Mete have moved back to Istanbul, they’re surrounded by relatives and old and new friends who seem to offer the pair a deeper and more expansive sense of community than they’d be able to find in the States. And the city itself appears to be booming. But, when they unexpectedly cross paths with their former American housemate, Aleksi, memories of the close-knit trio they’d once been make Defne and Mete freshly aware of a friendship that they lost, along with a shared spirit of questioning that’s no longer part of their lives.
—Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor
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