Mother Tongue

By Dan Cray

Book Overview

"STICKS AND STONES" HAD IT WRONG.

Words can hurt you, as elementary school teacher Jon Wanamaker learns while working to preserve a dying language. Already mired in the aftermath of a failed marriage, Jon is suddenly tormented by ghostly, ribbon-like sentences that stream across his vision, wrenching him in and out of consciousness.

But are they hallucinations, or something more? Minutes after the ribbons appear, a deranged sniper is hot on Jon's trail; a pro baseball pitcher sees exactly what Jon is seeing, from three thousand miles away; and a neurophysicist is leaving cryptic warnings while rushing to Jon's rural mountain community. Meanwhile Jon's ex-wife is about to expose a deadly, ribbon-related episode from Jon's hidden past... a revelation that could endanger the entire region.

Then there are the whispers, about ties between the mysterious sentences and a wondrous language unspoken for four thousand years. Are Jon's ribbons something miraculous, as his growing convictions insist? Or are they dangerous, as the people hunting for him--and the woman he still loves--claim? The startling answers promise to unlock new frontiers... if Jon can avoid falling prey to the Mother Tongue.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940317096
• ISBN13: 9781940317090
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Delcominy Creations, L.L.C.
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"