Homesick- Blog Tour

 

Author: Jennifer Croft

Publisher: Charco press

Publishing Date: 23rd August 2022

Many thanks to the publishing team for my copy and the book and an opportunity to join the tour

Blurb

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 home-schooled 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.

My thoughts

This book took me by utter surprise. The structure and layout was very different but moved me. You can feel the emotions and layout to draw out what is going on. 

Although a memoir, it is told in third person, which I think is rather poetic. Sometimes we need un-attach ourself to the situat⁶ions and events that have impacted us most in our lives to gain more clarity from them. This isn't easy to do but is a cathartic journey nonetheless. 

I really enjoyed it. 😁