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Homesick : a Memoir by Jennifer Croft, (Traducteur) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Homesick : a Memoir about?
Winner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed and the Times Literary Supplement "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
Who reads Homesick : a Memoir?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jennifer Croft, (Traducteur)
- Publisher
- The Unnamed Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781944700973
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Family & Relationships, Language Learning
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (188 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14