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Homesick Paperback – 23 Aug. 2022

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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.

"Croft moves quickly between powerful scenes that made me think about my own sisters. I love how the language displays a child's consciousness. A haunting accomplishment." Kali Fajardo-Anstine

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  3. Publisher
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  4. Publication date
    23 Aug. 2022
  5. Dimensions
    19.7 x 2.2 x 13 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1913867315
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1913867317
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"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

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Childhood trauma and challenges are overcome through sisterly tenderness and a love of language.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Charco Press; 1st edition (23 Aug. 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913867315
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913867317
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 2.2 x 13 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Jennifer Croft

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Jennifer Croft is the recipient of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, as well as Cullman, Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell and NEA grants and fellowships, the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award and a Tin House Scholarship for her creative memoir Homesick, originally written in Spanish. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, VICE, n+1, Electric Literature, Tin House, Lit Hub, Guernica, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.

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  • Bobs and Books
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2022
    This feels very detached for a memoir, so its very easy to forget that it is one. The storytelling was poignant, compelling and the relationship of the family was incredibly powerful and moving.

    Stylistically, I wasn't a fan of the chapter headers, and I don't love 2nd person POV but was willing to overlook those things on the strength of the story and the character relationships.
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  • Dan Skowronski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Impactful Read
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2024
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    "Homesick" by Jennifer Croft was a very well-written account of the authors childhood and the relationship she had with her younger sister. The impact that her sister's cancer and health issues had on their lives and on the author's mental health was clear. The author's use of photos throughout was an interesting addition and helped tie the entire story together. The short and specific accounts made for an interesting read alongside the photos. This book was very captivating because of the story and the format and made for an easy yet impactful read.
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  • Kayla Gerhardt
    4.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, Wholesome Read
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 April 2024
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    This book was one I was assigned as an in class read, but it turned out to be something that I found myself really enjoying. The use of photographs as they pertained to the authors account of the stories really helps the reader get a better sense of what the author and other people in the memoir were experiencing. It also very accurately depicted the 'love/hate' bond between sisters, especially when they're younger and what it was like for this family to be handling something as burdensome as a child with serious illness. The author also did a fantastic job of recounting being young and what it is like to experience such heavy problems that you can't fully understand at this age.
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  • Lily
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unique and engrossing novel/memoir
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 December 2023
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    "Homesick" by Croft is a literary marvel that artfully blends words and images to explore sisterly bonds and the impact of chronic illness on a family. This poignant memoir, a unique mix of prose and photographs, serves as a celebration of language, devotion, and the complexities of familial ties. Croft's powerful voice in contemporary literature resonates with a profound exploration of love, loss, and enduring connections, making "Homesick" a cause for celebration.
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  • Nicholas Pietrowski
    5.0 out of 5 stars poetic, heart-wrenching story of siblingry
    Reviewed in the United States on 16 November 2023
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    This tale of two sisters, one genius and one handicapped, shows how the opposing directions life pulls us in cannot sever the bonds of siblings forged in shared childhood. I had the hardcover version with all of its brilliant pictures, which was a nice accompaniment to the story, and enriched the sisters' journey; the pictures tell their own narrative alongside Croft's lyrical wording. The book's especially good at capturing the chaotic, volatile emotions of adolescence and young adulthood, with all of its capricious triumphs and heartaches, all of the bumps in the roads, the passions and dangers faced, and the joys that make it all worth while.
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  • Natalie M Swanstrom
    4.0 out of 5 stars In Class Reading
    Reviewed in the United States on 16 November 2023
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    I read this for an in class assignment and I was personally very surprised at how much I liked it. The way this was written as a memoir is really captivating. I love the meaning of sisterhood that is also tied into the idea of coming of age. The images Croft adds throughout the text add depth to the words written about Amy and Zoe who have such different roles in the story, although being sisters.

    This book was great to read as it helped explore a different kind of writing I was unfamiliar with, but thoroughly enjoyed.
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