The IdiotBy: Elif Batuman Discover TikTok's new favourite book. 'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante A mathematician