A BOOK LAUNCH FOR JENNIFER CROFT'S

NOTES ON POSTCARDS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
6:00-7:30PM

POSTCARD BOOKSHOP
inside CARGO
81 SE YAMHILL STREET
PORTLAND, OR (MAP)

In their own small way, postcards carry a lot of meaning across great distances. It's why we took them as the namesake for our tiny, but worldly store. And it's why we're particularly honored to host author and translator Jennifer Croft for the launch event of her beautiful memoir, Notes on Postcards. As a fellow postcard lover, Jennifer has sent and collected cards over a lifetime of travel and writing. In her new book, she shares this trove of ephemera to tell her own story of wandering, homecoming, and motherhood. 

Please join us for an evening celebrating postcards and stories. We'll host a chat and book signing with Jennifer to talk all about her collection, her travels, and her translations. And we'll also have loads of vintage and new postcards available for you to write and send your own messages!

* Limited parking available in a lot behind the store (enter off SE Water Avenue), as well as ample on-street parking. Easily accessible by bus and bicycle. An elevator is available for those who need assistance.

JENNIFER CROFT

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.

NOTES ON POSTCARDS

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