Hilda Hoy introduces Mother Tongue

We are delighted to welcome Hilda Hoy to Chapters for an evening around her debut memoir Mother Tongue, published this March by Wind & Bones. Raised in Taiwan by her Taiwanese mother and Canadian father, bilingual from the beginning, Hoy traces how English became her dominant tongue, and what was lost in that process. When her mother is diagnosed with dementia and begins losing the ability to speak, the repercussions of that loss come into sharp and tender focus.

A dear friend of Chapters and a Berlin-based writer, editor, and translator, this is an evening about language, identity, and what it means to find your voice between worlds.

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Chapters Bookshop, Wilsnacker Straße 60, Berlin, Germany

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