What if being true to yourself means hurting everyone around you?
Brynn is a claustrophobic suburban mother on the brink. Eric, her husband, is transforming in dark and dangerous ways. Their daughter, Jenny, can’t fathom the storm headed her way.
When Brynn awakes from a coma speaking fluent French, she seizes the opportunity to start a brand-new existence. This throws her current life, and all those who inhabit it, into a tumultuous emotional cyclone that ultimately consumes them all.
Stunningly original and profoundly insightful, Mother Tongue challenges our expectations of motherhood and our beliefs about women’s lives. It is at once an exhilarating tale of escape, and a warning about the cost of renewal.
Naima Brown holds degrees in Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology and Religious Studies. Her essays have appeared in Vogue Australia, the Guardian Australia, and more.
She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine. She has spent over a decade working in news, current affairs and documentary – save for her brief stint in reality TV, which inspired her first novel, The Shot.
She was born and raised in Northern California before living and working in Yemen and Afghanistan, and now lives in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales with her husband and her dog. Mother Tongue is her second novel.
Mother Tongue is published by Pan Macmillan Australia (Macmillan) and is available from all leading book retailers including QBD Books.
Image: Mother Tongue – courtesy of Pan Macmillan Australia