- SKU: 9781999376468
- BARCODE: 9781999376468
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Mother Tongue - Paperback
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Description
by Hilda Hoy (Author), Jenna Tang (Foreword by)
"When I speak Mandarin with my mother, I am reminded of the distance that separates us-of my foreignness from the person who made me."
In Mother Tongue, Hilda Hoy explores the manifold capacities of language: to shape one's sense of self, to bring together, to hold apart.
Raised in Taiwan by her Taiwanese mother and Canadian father, bilingual from the beginning, Hoy explores her experience of growing up with otherness, and traces how English became her dominant tongue. After many years living in Canada and Europe, her Chinese-speaking self packed into a box and sealed shut, the repercussions of her loss of Mandarin are thrown into sharp focus when her mother is diagnosed with dementia, and begins losing the ability to speak.
A tender exploration of grief and reconnection, of belonging and self, Mother Tongue is the story of a journey to locate one's voice between hybrid places.
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