In this hypnotic and affecting tale of discovery, an aspiring young author, Sinan, returns home from college to pursue his passion for literature, but is faced with a complicated family dynamic caused by his father’s gambling addiction that has his mother and sister at their wits' end. He struggles to reorient himself within the family drama while trying to come to grips with the next phase of his life. Sinan's search for meaning and direction provides the basis for a number of extensive and penetrating conversations that form the emotional and intellectual framework of The Wild Pear Tree.