Homesick [electronic resource] : A Memoir
Croft, Jennifer2020
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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 fifteen her life changes drastically and with tragic results.
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Homesick [electronic resource] : A Memoir / Jennifer Croft
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Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jennifer Croft won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights. She has also received NEA, Cullman, PEN, Fulbright, and MacDowell fellowships and grants, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, and a Tin House Scholarship for her memoir Homesick, originally written in Spanish. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in 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 elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires.
ISBN:
9781094133690
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English
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BRN:
3473221
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