A laugh-out-loud page-turner. 

Cold Turkey 

Jodi Cowles 
 

A hilarious and heartwarming saga unfolds in this fun novel when Amanda Morris leaves her simple, predictable American life behind in exchange for a teaching position in Turkey, a country featuring fasting, feasting, and frequent calls to prayer. There, she discovers Turkey’s interesting culture, food, and people, and she soon finds herself caught up in a perplexing day-to-day as a foreigner. But even when challenges start to stack up against her, she begins falling in love with the chaotic city. Jodi Cowles takes readers on an incredible journey of new destinations, travel humor, and the joys of being a stranger in a strange land!  

Jodi Cowles is an American author who spent eight years living with her husband and daughter in Istanbul, Turkey. Spending more than half her adult life living and working in seven different countries, her time abroad expanded her vision of the world and allowed her to collect stories along the way. Armed with an endless supply of culture-clashing mishaps, inappropriate marriage proposals, and language barrier misfires, Jodi’s writing gets to the heart of the matter: the human connection present in every country and culture. 

“A joyful heart is good medicine…” – Proverbs 17:22