Generally my friends and family were openly sceptical when I said I was quitting my job to move to Turkey. My mother burst into tears and was convinced I had lost my mind. Before moving to Turkey, I looked everywhere for something that would give me some idea of how different it would be to actually live here.
Most Westerners have a rather stereotypical idea of what to expect in Turkey.
Then too, we can't underestimate the impact of the movie industry and Midnight Express and the seething underworld of poppies and white slavers. And most of the initial culture shock I experienced in moving here was that it was a great deal more modern than I'd ever expected. It covers a little deeper than surface level for all these things, and it also gets into the social circumstances of hospitality, giftgiving and gift-receiving, funerals, circumcisions, and hiring household help. Few stones are left unturned. There is also a nice little section on language, that is quite well done.