This book is a map of my search in hopes of answering the question “what is gurbet?”, answering it in a way that i can fully translate the connotation and the feelings around it to _you_. “Gurbet” is a word in Turkish that is untranslatable. It has the specific meanings of “the situation of / just being far away from the place you grew up in / were born in / where your family is” or more shortly “absence of / from home”. In my quest to give you an answer, I turn to my community and even to the ghost of Ferit Edgu, the writer of “A Season in Hakkari” -a book I suggest you to definitely take a look at as well. The more I map, the more I try to mark exactly what “gurbet” is for you, more the options of what it _can_ be come up. I tried to lay all of them out very evenly and gently for _you_.