A young woman boards an IETT bus in her wedding dress. Alone. The hem of her gown sweeps the dust on the floor. She is not running away from the man she married. What she flees from is not even a person. How can she explain her story? To whom?

Elsewhere, in another time, a young woman frequently loses herself. At the age of three, she was left alone for days with her mother’s corpse. Her identity was unknown, so she grew up in an orphanage. She refuses to look at the belongings left behind by her mother.

Hidden Subject is the intertwined story of Revnâ and Bihter. But who is telling Bihter’s story? Once we uncover this, we also discover when and how their fates collide. With its unconventional narrative technique, Hidden Subject is a “love at last sight” novel—where the pieces finally come together, and the ending takes the reader by surprise.

September 2023