Homesick: A Memoir

"Haunting & visually poetic, Croft’s book explores the interplay between words & images & the complexity of sisterly bonds with intelligence, grace, & sensitivity. Poignant, creative, & unique."  -   Kirkus Reviews

Sisters Amy & Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating & 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 fifteen her life changes drastically & with tragic results.

"Every page of this stunning & surprising book turns words around and around, deepening their mystery & making the reader understand that, like a photograph that (somewhat falsely) freezes a moment in time, learning to speak means discovering that words carry both truth & lies." — Emily Rapp Black, The New York Times Book Review