Cold Nights of ChildhoodThe narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, and technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love, and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, becomes overcome by depression on her return, and is trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and inhumane treatment, she is released into the care of friends and family, making tentative steps in