Homesick

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“[A] marvel of a book that magically expresses the untranslatable…[of] the extent and limitations of love’s power.”

“Jennifer Croft writes each full-color scene of her powerful book with feeling, urgency, and exactitude.”

“This stunning memoir with photos is a love letter from one sister to another, a celebration of language and a story of devotion and disaster.”

“A heartbreaking, vanguard, and mixed-media coming-of-age memoir.”

“To live with homesickness is to live in the beautifully bruising space of separation created by the rapture of experience. Star translator Jennifer Croft occupies this space masterfully.”

“A visual love letter to family, language, and self-understanding…Every page of this stunning and surprising book turns words around and around.”

“Jennifer Croft has written a gorgeous and stunningly visceral memoir of heartbreak and love. The lapidary sentences and the disarming images are surfaces Croft invites her readers to see into, so that a single word or photograph shimmers with layers of resonance…make no mistake about it: Homesick is an incantatory and masterful work of art.”

“Jennifer Croft’s Homesick is a marvel: audacious and lyrical in its telling, deeply moving in its wisdom. It is a memoir not only on love and its mysterious permutations, but on the vitality of language and art, which enable us to translate who we are, where we’ve been, and why we are forever homesick for that which we cannot have.”

“Homesick, a poignant and moving meditation on family, friendship, place and the desire of the self to honor and transcend these and other ties, is a cause for celebration. It turns out one of our preeminent translators has an extraordinarily powerful story—and language—all her own.”

“Croft’s book explores the interplay between words and images and the complexity of sisterly bonds with intelligence, grace, and sensitivity. Poignant, creative, and unique.”

“A poignant and moving meditation…It turns out one of our preeminent translators has an extraordinarily powerful story―and language―all her own.”

“This inventive, stellar memoir examines the tensions between siblings and their separate fates in the most unsettling, unexpected ways. Jennifer Croft’s keen attention to the nuances and music of language is abundantly present in every sentence of Homesick.”

“A gorgeous and stunningly visceral memoir of heartbreak and love…Croft’s brilliant meditations on translation captivate the mind and the heart, for what is translation but a radical act of love and understanding? What a rare and thrilling thing it is to experience a cellular alteration occasioned by a work of art. And make no mistake about it: Homesick is an incantatory and masterful work of art.”

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