"Sometimes life greets us with the grogginess of sleep. A heaviness presses down on us, we fall asleep in the most awkward places, and our whole body grows stiff. Then, a voice we have always longed for comes and wakes us up, saying, 'Get up, go to your own bed,' and we cling to the warmth of that voice. And yes, everyone finds their rightful place one day."

In Off to Your Own Bed, Şermin Yaşar presents a deeply moving collection of short stories centered around the search for belonging. With her signature warmth and empathy, she tells the ordinary yet extraordinary tales of people who grew stiff and tired from "falling asleep" in the wrong places in life—relationships, careers, or cities where they didn't belong—until they finally woke up and found their true place in the world.