Mother Tongue
A Memoir
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Mother Tongue
Narrateur(s):
Lisa Flanagan
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Narrateur(s):
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Lisa Flanagan
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Sara Novic
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“In this enraging history and big-hearted family saga, Sara Nović has skillfully subverted the dividing lines of identity, her deafness becoming the thread that connects us all.”—Sierra Crane Murdoch, author of Yellow Bird
Sara Nović’s early years were steeped in music, Bible study, and a strong desire to fit in. But when she failed her school’s mandated hearing test, her worldview was thrown into chaos. Desperate not to be marked as different, she told no one, staying in the hearing world for as long as she could by brute force.
Eventually unable to ignore the fact that she was deaf, Nović sought out other deaf people and was welcomed into a tight knit community rooted in the beauty and joy of American Sign Language. Nović realized that rather than maintaining the facade of her old life or trying to straddle two worlds, she would need to cultivate an existence in the space between.
Now the mother of two young sons—one, biological and hearing, the other, adopted and deaf—Nović reflects on her life both before and after parenthood. She’s raising her children within the deaf world, offering them things her younger self needed, all the while knowing that as her children grow, their own paths will branch off from hers in ways she cannot fully predict or plan for.
Interwoven with Nović's personal story is a remarkable portrait of America through reflections on some of its most complex histories: the rise of the Christian right, the thorny world of international adoption, and above all, the deaf and disabled communities’ stubborn survival in the face of persistent oppression.
Nović’s clear, bold voice is one readers will hold onto, learn from, argue with, and be inspired by, as she asks us to recognize difference as a source of opportunity rather than fear, as a chance to draw families and communities together, and to build something new.
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“In this enraging history and big-hearted family saga, Sara Nović has skillfully subverted the dividing lines of identity, her deafness becoming the thread that connects us all. Mother Tongue is a moral force, and a salve.”—Sierra Crane Murdoch, author of Yellow Bird
“Mother Tongue is funny, intimate, honest, and deeply moving. At the same time, it's full of rich historical detail, dazzling critical inquiry, and political fury. I finished it—as I do all of Nović's work—brimming with equal parts rage and hope.”—Andrew Leland, author of The Country of the Blind
“Mother Tongue is one of the most powerful memoirs I have read in years, a book I defy anyone to read without being challenged or changed. . . . A revelation and a reckoning.”—Nicole Chung, author of A Living Remedy
“An unruly, defiant, and breathtaking history of becoming. You could say it’s about becoming deaf and becoming a parent, but it’s also about how ordinary people dismantle oppression one word, one sign, one bold act of love at a time.”—Greg Marshall, author of Leg
“This is not just a tremendous entry into the world of disability literature, it is a poignant tale of parenthood that should be mandatory reading for everyone. Nović gets to the heart of humanness without making loss, grief, or difference a disadvantage. . . . A miracle of a book.”—Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick
“Mother Tongue dismantles everyday ableism with precision, tracing Nović's journey from isolation to disability activism. It's a book that refuses to let us look away from how we fail disabled people—and shows us how we can do better.”—Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
“A stirring personal tale of coming of age as a deaf woman in America, woven through with a sweeping portrait of deaf history and culture, it resonates with an impassioned call to action, an appeal to decency and equality for people of all abilities and disabilities.”—Thomas Fuller, author of The Boys of Riverside
“Lucid and rigorously researched, Nović’s memoir offers a powerful critique of the systems that have marginalized deaf Americans across the decades. It’s a sobering must-read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Mother Tongue is funny, intimate, honest, and deeply moving. At the same time, it's full of rich historical detail, dazzling critical inquiry, and political fury. I finished it—as I do all of Nović's work—brimming with equal parts rage and hope.”—Andrew Leland, author of The Country of the Blind
“Mother Tongue is one of the most powerful memoirs I have read in years, a book I defy anyone to read without being challenged or changed. . . . A revelation and a reckoning.”—Nicole Chung, author of A Living Remedy
“An unruly, defiant, and breathtaking history of becoming. You could say it’s about becoming deaf and becoming a parent, but it’s also about how ordinary people dismantle oppression one word, one sign, one bold act of love at a time.”—Greg Marshall, author of Leg
“This is not just a tremendous entry into the world of disability literature, it is a poignant tale of parenthood that should be mandatory reading for everyone. Nović gets to the heart of humanness without making loss, grief, or difference a disadvantage. . . . A miracle of a book.”—Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick
“Mother Tongue dismantles everyday ableism with precision, tracing Nović's journey from isolation to disability activism. It's a book that refuses to let us look away from how we fail disabled people—and shows us how we can do better.”—Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
“A stirring personal tale of coming of age as a deaf woman in America, woven through with a sweeping portrait of deaf history and culture, it resonates with an impassioned call to action, an appeal to decency and equality for people of all abilities and disabilities.”—Thomas Fuller, author of The Boys of Riverside
“Lucid and rigorously researched, Nović’s memoir offers a powerful critique of the systems that have marginalized deaf Americans across the decades. It’s a sobering must-read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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