Meme

At forty-one, Melike has finally become the woman she always wanted to be: independent, successful, single, well-off. Free of the expectations that came with growing up in a conservative family, she believes her life and her body belong to her alone — until one event shakes that belief.

Suddenly her family, men, other women, even millions of strangers have something to say about her body. For the first time Melike sees how easily a woman's body becomes everyone's business — and she makes a decision so radical that even her closest friends struggle to understand it: she wants both of her breasts removed.

What begins as a deeply personal choice soon slips out of Melike's control, opening up much of what we think we know about womanhood, desire, motherhood and beauty.

A provocative novel, laced with dark humour and no less humane for it, about who gets a say over a body — and what we are willing to risk for freedom.