#katie crouch

[professor-winter]

Alrighty so this here is my heart book. I’ve had a copy since I was about eleven years old, I’ve read if countless times, but I’ve never finished it because I’m afraid of seeing what happens to the main character in the end.

It would be cool if I could please get a moodboard for it, if you want?

Themes: Italian gothic, Italian architecture, dark academia, girls studying abroad, sacrifical themes

There is part of my favorite poem, Anne Sexton’s ‘The Breast’, that opens the book: “…I am unbalanced-but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad. With an offering, an offering…”

“…ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴜɴʙᴀʟᴀɴᴄᴇᴅ-ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴀᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ꜱɴᴏᴡ. ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴍᴀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ɢɪʀʟꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴀᴅ. ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀɴ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀɪɴɢ, ᴀɴ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀɪɴɢ…”

P.D. ''Abroad,' Katie Crouch inspired' for @waltz-with-a-fairy

[kcmofya]

Three cover switches picked by each of our 3 members.

Cover Switch 1: Two Boys Kissing and Carry On (Bevin’s pick)

The obvious answer is that the two covers both feature boys faces very close together.  The heart of both of these stories are about boys finding love, sometimes in unusual places. Two Boys Kissing could easily apply to Simon and Baz.  Carry On could apply to Harry and Craig carrying on with their record setting kiss, despite all the difficulties around them and to the new generation of boys carrying on the legacy of the narrators.

Cover Switch 2: Lady Renegades and White Glove War (Kim’s Pick)

The gloves on Lady Renegades would fit super well with White Glove War and the girl on White Glove War would fit right in with the girls in Lady Renegades. These two books both feature magical Southern belles with lots of secrets who have to fight darkness to save someone they love.  Hayes and Harper would probably have a lot to talk about.*

Cover Switch 3: All The Rage and Asking For It (Carmen’s Pick)

Both books involve the aftermath of a rape on a girl and the bullying, public shaming, and just general shittiness of other people that occur after it. Both cover images convey what people say about the main characters after the rape and how the main character feels.

*Though everyone knows that Rebel Belle > The Magnolia League by like a million.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Embassy Wife | Author: Katie Crouch | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021)

[oldshrewsburyian]

Bookstore browsing

[bigtickhk]

Review | Katie Crouch’s ‘Embassy Wife’ is an antic novel about expats in Africa

It’s hard to say what’s comical and what’s in earnest — but there’s enough of both to keep a reader happily engaged.

Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch https://amzn.to/3ibjaAW

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9780374280345

[bigtickhk]

Uprooted for Their Husbands’ Jobs, and Eager to Shine on Their Own

In her new novel, “Embassy Wife,” Katie Crouch takes readers on a tour of expat life in Namibia.

Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch https://amzn.to/3ibjaAW 

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9780374280345

[beholdingslut]

i finally read abroad by katie crouch and it was pretty decent? like i feel like the publishers were a bit ambitious in putting “not since donna tartt’s the secret history...” in the blurb but idk, maybe they were trying to get ahead of the inevitable comparisons. anyway i’m predictable and the fact that female characters were abundant was enough to make the novel a good read for me.

[abookcover]