Homesick by Jennifer Croft
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.
Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Award in 2018 for her translation of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights from Polish. For her memoir Homesick, originally published in Spanish, she has received NEA, Cullman, PEN, Fulbright, and MacDowell fellowships and awards, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, and a Tin House Scholarship. She graduated from Northwestern University with a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. The New York Times, the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Granta, BOMB, VICE, n+1, Electric Literature, Tin House, Lit Hub, Guernica, the New Republic, The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications have published her work. She splits her time between LA and Buenos Aires.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781944700942 |
| ISBN 10 | 1944700943 |
| Title | Homesick |
| Author | Jennifer Croft |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Unnamed Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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