Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Childhood trauma and challenges are overcome through sisterly tenderness and a love of language.Stunning and surprising-New York Times
A Boundary-Expanding Story Of Devotion And Growing Up -NPR.org
Poignant, creative, and unique -Kirkus
A tribute to the deep bond of sisterhood: how, over years navigating life, it stretches apart and snaps back. -The Scotsman
HOMESICK is an incantatory and masterful work of art. -Marisa Silver , author of MARY COIN and LITTLE NOTHING
A poignant and moving meditation on family, friendship and place. -Thomas Chatterton Williams , author of LOSING MY COOL
A marvel: audacious and lyrical. -Vu Tran , author of DRAGONFISH
Change is life, and Homesick is an exercise in conscious, delicate, joyful change. -LA Review of Books
[Croft] has created a memoir that is at once different from any other yet far more intimate. -Books and Bao
Astonishing in its emotional reach, its evocation of a child's discovery and a young adult's suffering and all the wonder of words. -Shelf Awareness
[A] marvel of a book that magically expresses the untranslatable. -Foreword Reviews
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey , the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University and is a Presidential Professor at the University of Tulsa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913867317 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913867315 |
| Title | Homesick |
| Author | Jennifer Croft |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Charco Press |
| Year published | 2022-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 219 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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