Beryl Fletcher

THE SILICON TONGUE is centred on the life & times of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930’s. Tricked by the authorities into believing that she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian & discloses family secrets of rape & adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel & 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.

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Available from Spinifex Press for worldwide distribution.
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