The Oxford years - and what went wrong for Peri, in Three Daughters of Even

Part 2 of Elif Shafak's Three Daughters of Eve takes place at Oxford, where the protagonist, Peri, a professional-class woman in Istanbul and mother of teenage daughter in the "present" setting of the novel (i.e., ca 2017) went for college. Shafak uses bunch of weird narrative strategies to foreshadow what we can all anticipate: Something went terribly wrong for Peri in Oxford, in particular because of her Muslim heritage and middle-eastern (Turkish) background. Putting the clunkiness of the narrative aside (somehow if you can believe it her teenage daughter doesn't know her mother went to Oxford until she comes across a Polaroid photo of her mother's college days, which her mother apparently always carries w/ her in her wallet ... ), the first scene at Oxford is pretty good, as Peri and her diametrically opposed parents - dad a rationalist and skeptic and mother a devout Muslim - get a tour of the campus from a worldly young woman from an Iranian family who has lived in many countries and cities: the parents are united in distrust of this student. Should we be? We expect that she and Peri will engage in many debates about religion and the role of women in society, Western and Eastern; we anticipate that Peri will change an evolve, as most college students do, and drift away from her parents' beliefs, and we have been given a broad hint that Peri's favorite prof at Oxford got into some kind of scandalous trouble - we don't know the nature of this trouble yet - but we do know that Peri dropped out of Oxford and that she was there until 2002, so obviously the 9/11 attacks led to some crisis that forced her to leave, perhaps against her will? Anyway, this is a plot-dominant novel, would probably make a good movie, but it's a long stretch from literary fiction.