This website is home to selected pictures and chapters from a book by Jennifer Croft. The book was written in Spanish first, as a novel called Serpientes y escaleras, and then as a memoir in English, called Homesick. Neither the Spanish nor the English is a translation.
The English-language memoir, including photographs in black and white and color, is now available from Unnamed Press!
The Spanish-language novel will be published by Entropía in 2020.
Portions of the novel have been or are currently being translated into other languages by wonderful writers, literary scholars and translators from around the world. The names of the novel's characters, as well as the design and sequencing of the chapters, varies from language to language.
Before becoming a book, Homesick was featured in the Chicago Tribune, The Tulsa World, Harlequin Creature, La Agenda (in Spanish) and elsewhere.
As a book, Homesick has been reviewed and excerpted (links coming soon!).
A blog featuring illustrated readers' responses to the novel is available here.