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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

by Elif Shafak

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First published: 2020
Pages: 38

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Elif Shafak reflects on loneliness, anger and the difficulty of understanding others in a divided society. A remembered encounter in Istanbul exposes her own fearful retreat from another person's distress, while life in London brings thoughts about political polarization and the pandemic. This essay connects private emotional responses with the pressures of public life.

About the author

Elif Shafak

Born in Strasbourg to Turkish parents, raised partly in Ankara and Madrid, and writes in both Turkish and English, which she has said produces two slightly different writers. The Forty Rules of Love braids a contemporary American housewife's story with the meeting of Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.