Homesick

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

Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 FinalistThe 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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Jennifer Croft is the author of Homesick and Serpientes y escaleras and the co-winner with Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk of The International Booker for the novel Flights . 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 Yorker, The New York Times , The New York Review Daily , The Paris Review Daily , The Los Angeles Review of Books , Granta , Tin House , BOMB , n+1 , Guernica , The Guardian , The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. For Charco Press, she has translated Federico Falco's A Perfect Cemetery (2021) and Sylvia Molloy's Dismantling (forthcoming 2022).

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

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