· EVANSTON, Ill. When readers first meet Northwestern University’s Ozge Samanci in her graphic novel “ Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey,” she's an adorable six-year-old who sneaks into her older sister’s elementary school classroom and joyfully slides into the seat beside her. It’s one of the last times Samanci, now a multi-media artist and assistant professor in the School of . Raised in war-torn Turkey, Özge seeks to meet the expectations of her parents and her country. This graphic novel is charming read that discusses the difficulties of coming of age, and growing up in a militaristic country. The author provides an accurate account of life in Turkey during the 's/5(). · Ozge Samanci's "Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey" meticulously depicts a specific time and place, but it will speak to anyone who marches to the beat of a different bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci At age 6, Özge Samanci was desperate to be "on the other side of the binoculars" - that is, to be at school, being watched by her mother from across the street, just as she and her mother occasionally spotted and waved at her older sister Pelin, age 8, during recess. Cybils Review: DARE TO DISAPPOINT: GROWING UP IN TURKEY Synopsis: This memoir of growing up in s Turkey is a fascinating compare-and-contrast with the experience of growing up in America--I can't even say the West, because Turkey has long been a cultural crossroads between what we think of as West and East, between Europe and Asia. Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey.
Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey and the conflicts between secularism and fundamentalism. Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey is an autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by Özge Samanci. Humor and youthful angst lighten this graphic memoir of life in a country pulled strongly in different directions by conflicts between Western and conservative Muslim values. Dare to Disappoint.: Growing Up in Turkey. Ozge Samanci. Macmillan, - JUVENILE NONFICTION - pages. 2 Reviews. "As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the and 90s, Ozge Samanci.
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