Mother Tongue

"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.

Author: Dan Cray
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Delcominy Creations, L.L.C.
Published: 11/13/2018
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9781940317090

About the Author
Cray, Dan: - Dan Cray sold his first story at age sixteen and won Time magazine's national essay contest two years later. His fiction includes two award-winning short stories and the paranormal thrillers Piercing Maybe and Mother Tongue. In nonfiction, he wrote Soaring Stones: A Kite-Powered Approach To Building Egypt's Pyramids and spent twenty-three years covering science for Time, where he reported sixty cover stories and shared a National Headliner Award. He holds a UCLA English degree and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.