5/19/2023 0 Comments Dare to Disappoint by Ozge Samanci![]() ![]() Life keeps offering opportunities if you have the openness.” “I was told I was going to end up in a cubicle with a math degree, but things unfolded in a very different way. “It’s the book I would have liked to have read in college,” Samanci said. By the time she's in first grade, Samanci is learning harsh lessons about the Turkish educational system and her country, which was undergoing intense political and social upheaval during the 1980s and '90s. It’s one of the last times readers see Samanci, now a multi-media artist and assistant professor in the School of Communication, jazzed about school. When we first meet Northwestern University’s Ozge Samanci in her graphic novel “Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey,” she's an adorable six-year-old who sneaks into her older sister’s elementary school classroom and joyfully slides into the seat beside her. ![]()
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