By Brittani Sonnenberg

Brittani Sonnenberg’s debut novel, Home Leave , is forthcoming from Grand Central on June 3rd, and is available from Arche in Germany (as Heimflug .) She is based in Berlin, and can be found on Twitter .

  1. An Expatriate’s Guide to Not Screwing Up Your Overseas Book Launch

    By Brittani Sonnenberg

    in Books

    1. Choose an excerpt from your translated novel. Practice it out loud. Realize that you do not understand 10% of your own text, even though you’ve been living in Germany for the past six years. Look up the words you don’t know in the dictionary and make small, inscrutable notes on the page. Read through again, stumbling more than the first time, due to the small, inscrutable notes. 2. Board train to the book fair…

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