Elif Shafak. Istanbul Bastard (№ 424710)

Aunt Feride sleeps across the hallway. She is an intelligent, educated woman, studied at the university, she has a creative nature. If only she could find at least some integrity. She's so sensitive, it's very unusual and gorgeous, but sometimes it's very scary. She never has solid ground under her feet, because anything can happen at any time. She doesn't know what it's like to feel life as something continuous and safe. Everything is at all times, it is surrounded by fragments of reality, they pray that it unites them, resist any idea of unity. Again and again, Aunt Feride dreams of a lover. She wants to be loved in her entirety, accepting even her countless fears, oddities, and pathologies. She needs a lover who will adore absolutely everything in her. Aunt Ferida does not need a lover who would love her light side and shun her dark side. She needs a person who would stay with her in grief, and in joy, in madness and in mental health. Perhaps, she thinks, that is why it is more difficult for crazy people to have an affair - not because they do not have all the houses, but because few are ready to meet several personalities in one person at once.