A picture of the artist when she was a teenager. a book about creating oneself rather than just discovering it. 1995, and email is a relatively new technology. The daughter of Turkish immigrants, Selin, arrives at Harvard during her first year. She enrolls in classes she has never taken before, makes friends with her dynamic and worldly Serbian classmate Svetlana, and almost by mistake starts corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. The act of writing seems to take on new and more enigmatic meanings with each email Selin and Ivan exchange, despite the fact that they have hardly ever talked in person.