About
Yasemin Alptekin, Ph.D. is a Turkish-American author, translator, educator.
She taught at universities in Turkey and in the U.S. She translated numerous books from English to Turkish. Her autobiographical debut book in Turkish "Gitmek Mi Zor Kalmak Mı?" (What Is Harder? To Leave or Stay?) was published in 2018. The Passage is her first book in English that she translated from its original Turkish. The Turkish version was published with the title Dehliz in 2021.
Featured Work
The Passage
The main character of the story, Sencer, is a 12 year old boy with functional autism, or, Asperger’s.
People don’t always understand him. He struggles to make friends with his peers. He doesn’t get their jokes or their sarcasm.
But after his teacher sets a summer assignment, everything changes.
Sencer embarks on an international journey with his family…only to find himself in trouble. Along the way, what he discovers changes him, and his community, forever.
