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- Winner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed and the Times Literary Supplement"Croft writes with an extraordinary intensity that ensures this exceptional Bildungsroman will stay etched in the reader's mind for a very long time to come.
- About the Author: Jennifer Croft was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk's FLIGHTS.
- 256 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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About the Book
The coming-of-age story of an award-winning translator in gorgeous, precise prose, with full-color photographs throughout. "A gorgeous and stunningly visceral memoir of heartbreak and love."--Marisa Silver, author of Mary CoininBook Synopsis
Winner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed and the Times Literary Supplement
"Croft writes with an extraordinary intensity that ensures this exceptional Bildungsroman will stay etched in the reader's mind for a very long time to come." Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights"It's a complex portrait of a young Oklahoma woman's development of a rich and exacting interior life. It's also a visual love letter to family, language and self-understanding... Every page of this stunning and surprising book turns words around and around." --The New York Times
"Croft's photos, mixed in with her text, create continuity between memoirist and protagonist, despite their differing names... They make Homesick into a translator's Bildungsroman, one in which art is first a beacon, then a home." --NPR
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy's first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of 15 her life changes drastically and with tragic results.
Review Quotes
"Haunting and visually poetic, Croft's book explores the interplay between words and images and the complexity of sisterly bonds with intelligence, grace, and sensitivity. Poignant, creative, and unique." --Kirkus Reviews
"In this marvel of a book that magically expresses the untranslatable, Croft follows Amy's tortured path as she asks how far, and in what way, we are responsible for how loved ones' lives play out. In her struggle to answer such questions, Amy learns the extent and limitations of love's power." --Foreword Reviews
"This stunning memoir with photos is a love letter from one sister to another, a celebration of language and a story of devotion and disaster." --Shelf Awareness
"Through photographs and prose, Croft's genre-blending memoir investigates how chronic illness sickens an entire family... A heartbreaking, vanguard, and mixed-media coming-of-age memoir." --Booklist
About the Author
Jennifer Croft was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk's FLIGHTS. She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir HOMESICK. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review and has published her own work and numerous translations in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, n+1, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, BOMB, Guernica, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. Originally from Oklahoma, she currently divides her time between Buenos Aires and Los Angeles.Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jennifer Croft
Language: English
Street Date: September 10, 2019
TCIN: 82959296
UPC: 9781944700942
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-7471
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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