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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Sri Lanka, at Mihintale, the spot where Buddhism was first adopted over two thousand years ago. They have achieved peace after years of suffering, and don’t deserve this attack. My love goes to all of you. I was so warmly welcomed by so many people in this country during my visit in late 2018. #srilanka #srilankapeace #travelswithtania #lovesrilanka
Irresistible nature! Hello world.
Tandin at the top of #Pineflat in #Healdsburg. Top of the world and 75°!
My dear Tandin is visiting from Bhutan, so we stopped at the #archeryfields in #goldengatepark since that is Bhutan’s national pastime. We met Katherine, a lovely young lady who is taking her gap year to train for a slot in the #olympics2020 and they talked #archery. I chatted with her mother and learned accidentally that her shooting is a bit off because she just took two weeks off to be crowned #misschinatownusa ! Congratulations to Katherine Wu, a modest, gracious and beautiful young woman. #travelswithtania #sanfranciscochinatown #bhutan