A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk.
Orhan Pamuk follows an Istanbul street vendor from boyhood into adult life, connecting his coming of age and his attachments with the city around him.
Read it for the way an ordinary livelihood can provide a vantage point on a much larger world. It invites a discussion of how a city and a person change together without necessarily changing at the same pace.
Edition note: The cover and Books-A-Million option are the Vintage paperback (ISBN 9780307744845). Apple Books offers the English ebook (ISBN 9781101875834). Both use Ekin Oklap's translation.
