Homesick - Jennifer Croft
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Jennifer Croft
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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 Coin in 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.
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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 Coin in 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.
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