{"id":30341,"date":"2024-07-15T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=30341"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:49:29","slug":"aysegul-savas-freedom-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2024\/07\/15\/aysegul-savas-freedom-to-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayseg\u00fcl Savas: &#8220;Freedom to Move&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>&#8220;Freedom to Move&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Ayseg\u00fcl Savas<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #808080;\">from the July 22, 2024 issue of&nbsp;<em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I like Ayseg\u00fcl Savas&#8217;s work, who just published the novel <em>The Anthropologists<\/em> last week. I&#8217;m excited to read it, and I was also excited to get this new story this week. Here is how &#8220;Freedom to Move&#8221; begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I was in Istanbul for a few days and on my way to visit my grandfather. He\u2019d moved in with my father at the beginning of the pandemic because we had been worried about him living alone, in the town by the Black Sea where he\u2019d retired. We\u2019d urged him to come to the city, just for a short time. It had been a wise decision; my grandfather\u2019s health deteriorated rapidly in those months, and his stay became indefinite. He could no longer go out for long walks as he used to, or even remain upright for extended periods.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will definitely be reading this soon this week (even though I still haven&#8217;t read the last issue&#8217;s loads of stories). I hope you&#8217;ll join in and then comment below with your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s New Yorker fiction is Ayseg\u00fcl Savas&#8217;s &#8220;Freedom to Move.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1320,94],"tags":[1461],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-30341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aysegul-savas","category-new-yorker-fiction","tag-2024-new-yorker-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/July-22-2024-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-7Tn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31167,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341\/revisions\/31167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}