One hundred and fifty years ago, the seagulls feasting on a huge tuna on Moda Beach are now fighting over a small mackerel. Barış Özgenç seems to have booked his place on the eastern express of literature with the entertaining details he sprinkles in his first long story Therapy, like the spices that must be dominant in a nation’s most famous dish, and his unique style blended with humor, detective fiction, psychology and magical realism that the whole story promises to the reader.