At its simplest WILL OF MY OWN is a memoir.  The author examines her life from the view point of an adult who has lived through growing up in a country where her family immigrated when she was barely a teenager. Written with courage, sincerity, and nostalgia her story carries the reader through many twists of a life she tries to make sense of while trying to be a good daughter to her traditional minded parents and finding her own personal identity along the way. Her complicated love-hate relationship with a mother who keeps an exotic secret and old fashioned beliefs hang like a Damocles sword affecting and destroying the author's cherished relationships. 

Füsun Atalay writes with forgiveness and understanding, seeking peace with her past and with those who have wronged her. In her poetic language she gives the reader a taste of her delightful childhood spent in a very different culture and the pain of being uprooted from it to live in North America. The reader will enjoy peaking into lovely Turkish customs, perspectives of an imaginative mind, and sharing some personal poetry and journal pages. Laced with the author's subtle humor and her philosophy on love, life, and moving forward, this is a memoir you will enjoy reading a second time.