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Notes on Postcards - by Jennifer Croft (Hardcover)

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  • International Booker Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft's memoir of wanderlust, love, and motherhood seen through a lifelong collection of postcards Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life, providing comfort, beauty, humor, and inspiration.
  • About the Author: JENNIFER CROFT won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir, Homesick, and the International Booker Prize for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Flights.
  • 448 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography,

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International Booker Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft's memoir of wanderlust, love, and motherhood seen through a lifelong collection of postcards

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 grandmother. As a translator travelling the world, she bought and mailed them to remain connected to the growing list of countries she called home. 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 trusty companions, sharing her collection with the reader and documenting the lifespan of a form of communication that permanently altered the way 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 devastating family losses, and eventually the birth of twins, she's forced to rethink everything she thought she knew as a translator and traveler about communication, distance, and desire.

Notes on Postcards is profoundly intimate and honest while also being far-reaching, posing fundamental questions about why and how we connect to each other, to our histories and geographies, our languages, pictures, and ourselves.



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JENNIFER CROFT won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir, 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 Mairal'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 Literature. She lives in Tulsa.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 448
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Publisher: Catapult
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jennifer Croft
Language: English
Street Date: November 10, 2026
TCIN: 1007886391
UPC: 9781646221035
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-3359
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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