About the author
Ledia Xhoga is an Albanian American writer and translator based in New York. Her work is concerned with migration, language, responsibility, and the psychological cost of carrying testimony between people.
Misinterpretation follows an Albanian interpreter whose efforts to help clients outside her professional role disturb her marriage, memory, and sense of what she can reliably understand.
Where to start
Start with Misinterpretation, Xhoga’s novel about language work, secondary trauma, and an immigrant life divided between New York and Albania.
