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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Lake Bled delights with every cloud shift, and even in the rain which welcomed me on my first visit years ago and poured down on us again. But my eye keeps being drawn to old nooks, doorways and windows which are slowly giving way to upgraded elegance. #bled #slovenia2019 #travelswithtania #cloudsandbeauty
Our parents and grandparents left the city of Yevpatoria on November 13, 1920 on a military minesweeper identified only as Tralschik No. 412. Yevpatoria, once a fashionable sea resort, was a final hold out of the White Russian army during the revolutionary war. Just prior to his death eighty years later my Uncle Shura described the house in which they had spent months while waiting for the next stage of their future. The old piers and dock were inaccessible, but this house spoke to us. We believe it held the second floor room that sheltered them. Neighboring mosques reminded us that our grandfather traded gold for a sack of flour with the local Crimean Tatars—his final life-saving negotiation on his native land. #russia2019 #travelswithtania #амочаевы #Россия2019 #евпатория #russia2019 #crimea #крым #onehundredyearsofexile
The churches in Russia offered endless fascination with their beautiful interiors. I loved watching the people who worked, prayed, and waited in them. These were all in the center of Moscow. #travelswithtania #амочаевы #moscow2019 #москва2019 #Церкви #churches
At the beautiful Bol’shoy Theater for a stellar performance of Eugene Onegin with its famous heroine Tatiana. When my husband and I heard that opera for the first time, he said “So that’s why they called you Tania!” #travelswithtania #амочаевы #moscow2019 #Большой #bolshoytheatre #Москва2019