Mina Seçkin's The Four Humors is an engrossing exploration of national identity, the meaning of family and loss, and what happens when a family hides its central secret. Seçkin is a Turkish American ...
If stories expand us, secrets shrink us, as this deep, wise, and intricate debut novel by Mina Seçkin illustrates. “The Four Humors” is a pungent mix of politics and family dynamics, set in Turkey a ...
THE FOUR HUMORS By Mina Seçkin 353 pp. Catapult. $27. Image Sibel, a college student from New York, is spending the summer with her paternal grandmother in Istanbul. While there she fully intends to ...