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Homesick

by Jennifer Croft

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Quick take

The narrator takes us with her on a devestating coming-of-age journey.

Synopsis

Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Finalist. 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...

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Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Finalist. 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 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 an American author, critic and translator who translates works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish.

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