Summary

In “May,” Juho asks Selin for dating advice. A girl he met at a dance named Lara invited him to see a play she is performing in. The girl attends a women’s college. Selin thinks of the only person she knows who attends a women’s college: her friend from summer camp, Jordan. They still exchange emails. Nurhat never approved of Selin’s friendship with half-Chinese Jordan. Nurhat always wanted Selin to be friends with white people. She also feared her daughter might be a lesbian and asked her outright one night when they were watching Law and Order. Selin found this rude but reassured her mother.

Selin runs into Peter one day and laughingly tells him how poorly her travel plans for the summer are going. He tells her he will put her in touch with a friend of his...