Anastasia Ashman 2/26/18 Anastasia Ashman 2/26/18

Writing foreword to Expat Harem's natural successor, Expat Sofra

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Meet the contributors to Expat Sofra and look for the book this spring!

Anastasia Ashman 12/6/16 Anastasia Ashman 12/6/16

Retrospective: Elif Shafak calls my Expat Harem a best book on Turkey

Thanks, Elif! (She also wrote the forward to it, back in 2005. We connected early -- as sisters in Turkish culture, and Western culture through it, and fellow writers and speakers.)

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Read all Elif's suggestions at FiveBooks.com

Anastasia Ashman 4/27/16 Anastasia Ashman 4/27/16

Students who hate reading were the first to finish my book? What!? TBT.

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Thanks for sharing this, Gul Celkan. (She's an English and women's studies instructor at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus.)