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"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 ... Read more

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