“I was inspired to do a year of therapy in Spanish and found it incredibly helpful to think about the events of my childhood and adolescence in a language different to that in which they originally happened. It stripped everything down to its essence, making it possible for me to understand in a way I never had before. In Homesick, I write of Amy’s early travels that “[i]n country after country she will calculate exchange rates and learn words, lie when she’s missing the words for the truth and be lighter in translation because all words without memories are beautiful and hollow like the eggs Amy and Zoe used to dye each Easter that Zoe always tried so hard to keep from breaking.” I think of fresh words and their relationship to memory like this […]”
(Jennifer Croft em entrevista com Nataliya Deleva para a Fence Magazine)
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