"The Anthropologists" by Aysegül Savas

We had quite a few interesting fiction books on the list this time. Surely some suggestions will be recycled in the future.

The book we picked was Turkish author Ayşegül Savaş’s recent novel; an erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love - attempting to capture the era of being an 'irresponsible grown-up'. About finding the preciousness in the mundane; simple apartment search is turned into a soulful, often funny, examination of modern coupledom, home-building, and expat life in the universal modern city.

Goodreads sells this book as:
```Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? Can they create their own traditions and rituals? Whom can they consider family?

As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, spends her days gathering footage from the neighborhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you're filming a park.” Life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues-parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope, into something that will be distinctly theirs. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?

Hailed by Lauren Groff and Marina Abramovic, Savas's fine, precise craft turns The Anthropologist's simple apartment search into a soulful, often funny, examination of modern coupledom, home-building, and expat life in the universal modern city.```

This is a rather short book, but with the body full of spring feelings we decided to not rush it. The hardcover book is eight pages short of two hundred while the unabridged audiobook, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, is 17 quarters.