Had a great time reading at Hidden Compass’s first anniversary celebration !

Had a great time reading at Hidden Compass’s first anniversary celebration!

 
Tania Romanov Amochaev, at a recent event for Mother Tongue .

Tania Romanov Amochaev, at a recent event for Mother Tongue.

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Mother Tongue at the Tesla Club
Mother Tongue at the Tesla Club

What a pleasure and an honor to present my book, Mother Tongue, to the Tesla Club!

Why creative nonfiction?
Why creative nonfiction?

I explain my choice to use the creative nonfiction genre to tell the stories in Mother Tongue.

Mother Tongue at the Tesla Club!
Mother Tongue at the Tesla Club!

Honored to present my book, Mother Tongue, to the Tesla Club, a Serbian Cultural organization in Saratoga!

New blog post!
New blog post!

Arriving shortly before and leaving on Election Day in Bangladesh offered much insight into the country.

What was life like in the refugee camp?
What was life like in the refugee camp?

Matthew asks what life was life in the refuge camp, as I describe in my book, Mother Tongue.

 
 

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What language did you speak with your mother? With your father? With your brother? For Tania Romanov there are three different answers.

Mother Tongue follows the lives of three generations of women― Katarina, Zora, and Tania―over the last 100 years. It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists. Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds.

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“The Balkans are a tangle many of us tend to gloss over because we can’t get inside it. With this fascinating memoir, Tania Romanov takes us there.”
— Tamim Ansary, "West of Kabul, East of New York"
 
 
 

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Stella met the most wonderful people in San Francisco. Juanita and Qweer were filming a trailer at the Castro Theater for this summer’s film festival and stopped to chat and take a pic! . . . #travelswithtania #shotoniphone #photography #photographer #photography📷 #sanfrancisco #castrotheater #dragqueens #dragqueen #granddaughter #perfectday #images #lgbt #creativity #outandabout #untoldvisuals #travelphotographer #travelpics #worldtravelpics #followmeplease
And Stella was gracious enough to let me photograph her in the middle of the drawing.
My granddaughter Stella came into town and we walked along Ocean Beach in San Francisco! Outrageously warm weather, and then we found these fabulous designs. We walked up to the Cliffhouse to view them better, then realized the people who had made them were still down below. So we ran down to thank them for their efforts! We learned they were made by a group called Elemental Arts, and that they offer workshops once a month. We had the fortunate timing to see them just as they finished their efforts. Thank you Elemental Arts for adding such joy to our day.