The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the young. Meanwhile, Alice’s daughter Joy finds out that when it comes to family stories there is always more than one version of the truth.
- ISBN10 1875559493
- ISBN13 9781875559497
- Publish Date 15 July 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Spinifex Press
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 235
- Language English