The Anthropologists
Utterly enchanting ... Even the most humdrum events resonate with importance when viewed through Savas’s meticulous and layered prose and plotting. Her storytelling is subtle but deliberate ... Savas has invited us to praise the unremarkable grace of Asya and Manu’s lives, and in the process, to pause and appreciate the beautiful textures of our own.
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There is a naive simplicity to these episodes, which walk a very fine line between spareness and banality ... Genially low-stakes ... Passing time, the book suggests, is all that there is.
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Savaş has written a book that reads like a fictional ethnography. It has the qualities of an empirical study, the only difference being that the subjects of this study are made-up characters ... Savaş approaches her novel with a keen awareness of the reality through which it crafts and filters its make-believe.
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