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We are delighted that Hilda Hoy’s gorgeous book, Mother Tongue has recently been featured in Berlin Books to Look Out For!
The Berliner is Berlin‘s English-language culture magazine featuring news, events, guides and more and was founded back in 2002.
The Berlin Books to Look Out For features newly released books by Berlin-based authors, all rooted in and connected with the city.
Of course, we absolutely love Hilda’s Mother Tongue but don’t forget to check out the rest of the list and choose your next read. You can read the full article here.
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.
Not read Hilda Hoy’s Mother Tongue yet? Then head to our bookshop and get your copy.
