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SUMMARY:Jennifer Croft Notes on Postcards: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Litquake presents an AfterShocks event Jennifer Croft celebra
 ting her new book Notes on Postcards: A Memoir Published by Catapult Int
 ernational Booker Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft’s memoir of wa
 nderlust\, love\, and motherhood seen through a lifelong collection of p
 ostcards Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life\,
  providing comfort\, beauty\, humor\, and inspiration. When she left her
  hometown for the first time\, she used them to stay in touch with her g
 randmother. As a translator travelling the world\, she bought and mailed
  them to remain connected to the growing list of countries she called ho
 me. She fell in love with her husband while shopping for postcards at a 
 flea market. In this poetic memoir\, Croft takes a closer look at her tr
 usty companions\, sharing her collection with the reader and documenting
  the lifespan of a form of communication that permanently altered the wa
 y we see and inhabit the world. Parallel to the story of postcards runs 
 Croft’s own history of familial and romantic love and its culmination in
  her desire for a child. As she experiences pregnancy\, then several dev
 astating family losses\, and eventually the birth of twins\, she’s force
 d to rethink everything she thought she knew as a translator and travele
 r about communication\, distance\, and desire. Notes on Postcards is pro
 foundly intimate and honest while also being far-reaching\, posing funda
 mental questions about why and how we connect to each other\, to our his
 tories and geographies\, our languages\, pictures\, and ourselves. Jenni
 fer Croft won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Ir
 ena Rey\, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her me
 moir\, Homesick\, and the International Booker Prize for her translation
  of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator 
 of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery\, Romina Paula’s August\, Pedro M
 airal’s The Woman from Uruguay\, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
 . She has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Lit
 erature. She lives in Tulsa. Litquake is a project of the Litquake Found
 ation\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered in the state of California. Litqu
 ake’s diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the 
 key issues of the day\, bring people together around the common humanity
  encapsulated in literature\, and perpetuate a sense of literary communi
 ty by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because they belie
 ve in literature as a public good\, they work to produce events that are
  accessible to all. Visit them at https://www.litquake.org This event ha
 s been made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.\n\nTick
 ets: https://citylights.com/events/jennifer-croft-notes-on-postcards-a-m
 emoir/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/30c293c7-90c7-48b5-8b99-05d7
 53b6d9f5
LOCATION:CCSF North Beach / Chinatown Bookstore\, CA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/30c293c7-90c7-48b5-8b99-05d753b6d9f
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