Allison M. Charette

Tsitsi Ella Jaji has shared the most beautiful way I've ever heard translation described. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún encouraged all of us to push publishers to sell translation rights INTO African/other local languages, as a surprisingly simple way to support literary production and exchange.

Today is great. 💜

Oh AND, cover credit!! Glorious design by Sunandini Banerjee <3

Tomorrow! Come hear me chat with Sarah Ardizzone, Edwige Renée Dro, Ruth Bush, and Ray Ndebi. It's free! It'll be fun 🥰 #SoAatHome

book cover for Raharimanana's Return, featuring a red fodilahy mena bird

Look, it's a #coverreveal!

Coming in July: RETURN, by Raharimanana, translated by me!

This book is a beast. It's taken me two years to do.

I've got the whole elevator pitch thing, but it always devolves into **emotionnnnn**. Rich and gorgeous and raw.

Preorders here: bookshop.org/p/books/retu...

Hi. Keep trying. Be gentle with yourself. Rest. It is worth it.

Join me online on January 28 for a conversation with Edwige Renée Dro, Ruth Bush, Ray Ndebi, and Sarah Ardizzone! We'll be talking about Francophone literature in Africa, or at least everything on the topic we can fit into one hour. (Easy, right? 😅)

My current favorite mondegreen/misheard lyric:

Can we go back? This is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up like the Ceiling Cat told us
Like the Ceiling Cat told us

(as performed by Catklemore, Ryan Mewis, and Ray Pawlton) (apparently)

I am an angry mama dragon.

Which means the kids who are masking (most of whom are still contagious and actively testing positive) just...take their masks off to eat **in the cafeteria with everyone else?**

And we wonder why this is spreading through schools.

School follows CDC guidelines, which means home for at least 5 days, then masking at school for at least 5 days.

But...

They don't have any policies for lunchtime.

Okay see here's the thing tho.

As a family, we avoided the 'rona for 3.5 YEARS.

We get not one week into school in this 2023 year, and our 2nd grader gets infected.

(He's doing ok, the rest of us are still testing negative.)

so, I've been thinking
instead of a "translated by" credit
what if every book I translated
just said Title of Book (Jeremy's Version)

I think I have found the healthiest alternative to doomscrolling, and it's called Pokémon Violet.

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