*** A MUST READ FOR TRAVELERS TO CROATIA *** Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans.
Go with her as she journeys through time and history looking for answers, and finding some..
Today she knows better.
Until the first time, she believed your country of birth was a fixed point.
The country of birth listed on Tania\'s American passport changed four times in four successive renewals.
And by then, her Mother was gone.
It never occurred to her to ask until she started writing her memoir.
Tania doesn\'t know why she spoke Serbian, rather than Croatian, with her Mother Zora.
She didn\'t speak any language until she was two.
She and her brother grew up in San Francisco speaking English.
Tania was born in Serbia, but left when she was six months old.
Her father was Russian.
Tania\'s Mother was Croatian.
The language is Serbian.
And by the way, it was not her mother\'s native language.
She spoke a unique language with her mother, one in which she is still fluent.
But for Tania Romanov, the answer is no.
Did you speak your Mother tongue with anyone except your mother? That is the most bizarre question of all.
What is your Mother tongue? What language did you speak with your mother? What language did you speak with your father? What language did you speak with your brother? For Tania Romanov there are Three different answers to those questions.
And through it all glows a love of language.
It makes those countries come alive.
Tania Romanov\'s story clarifies the history and geography of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro by pulling you into the lives of real people.
Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds.
Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists.
It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed.
It follows the lives of Three Generations of women―
Katarina, Zora, and Tania―over the last 100 years. *** A MUST READ FOR TRAVELERS TO CROATIA *** Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans
