Notes on Postcards

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“A charming memoir … Poetic, engaging, and pithy—as befits a celebration of postcards.” —Kirkus Reviews

”[Croft’s] writings are often poetic in this whimsical book, and the cards themselves are beautifully reproduced and fascinating for both their pictures and their content in this tribute to the past.” —Booklist

“Readers will appreciate Croft’s personal tone alongside a unique history of communication. For fans of micro-histories, epistolary novels, and memoirs, this book arrives at the intersection of all three.” —Library Journal

“An earnest, elegant meditation on place and purpose … Interspersed with this personal narrative—which is cleverly captured via fragments of text of postcard dimensions—is the history of the postcard … The book presents life, appealingly, as a concatenation of everywhere one has been, all that has happened—and positions the translator as linguistic and cultural go-between. In paring her story back to the basics, Croft has produced something that, much like a postcard, is simultaneously telltale and intimate … ephemeral and lasting. A charming illustrated history of the postcard, alongside postcard-sized fragments of ruminative prose tracing how places and events shaped Croft’s life as a daughter, translator, and mother.” —Shelf Awareness

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.

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