{"product_id":"homesick-jennifer-croft-9781944700942","title":"Homesick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed and the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Croft writes with an extraordinary intensity that ensures this exceptional Bildungsroman will stay etched in the reader's mind for a very long time to come.\" \u003cb\u003eOlga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Croft's photos, mixed in with her text, create continuity between memoirist and protagonist, despite their differing names... They make \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e into a translator's Bildungsroman, one in which art is first a beacon, then a home.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe coming of age story of an award-winning translator, \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSisters 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Croft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944700943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944700942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/10\/2019","brand":"Jennifer Croft","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044076220671,"sku":"9781944700942","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_707ef478-68a1-45ac-9e70-657538e0ec39.jpg?v=1684970796","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homesick-jennifer-croft-9781944700942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}