Silicon Tongue

Title: Silicon Tongue
Author: Beryl Fletcher
I: 1709477
ISBN: 9781875559497
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 236
Section: Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The Silicon Tongue follows the award-winning novel, The Word Burners and critically acclaimed novel, The Iron Mouth. These novels explore the relationship between language and identity and tell stories of women's lives in a time of radical social change. The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life and times of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the young. Meanwhile, Alice's daughter Joy finds out that when it comes to family stories there is always more than one version of the truth.