#2 Native Tongue

The Judas Rose. Native Tongue II

Suzette Haden Elgin
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An instant cult classic, and groundbreaking forerunner to Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale. Native Tongue Trilogy revealed to its audiences a frightening future world where the women of Earth are once again property. In Volume II of the trilogy, the women have at last decided to spread the language Láadan using the Roman Catholic church. But when a handful of priests discover the plot, they move to stamp it out with their own female agent, Sister Miriam Rose. But Sister Miriam has plans of her own. . . .
Genres: Science FictionFictionFeminismDystopiaScience Fiction FantasyLinguisticsSpeculative FictionAudiobookLanguageWomens
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