Mother Tongue: Immersions and Other True Stories

By: Morábito, Fabio

Published by Other Press, 2026-04-07

"Fabio Morábito embarks on a journey in search of his roots in Mother Tongue, giving us a book of short stories that is also a celebration of our capacity to escape the tyranny of ideas and enter a space where the world reveals itself, free from any gaze. With the stealth of a thief who enters a house at night while everyone sleeps, the writer betrays his fellow human beings but at the same time is a sentinel who watches over their slumber. From the first of the eighty-four short texts that comprise this book, which is in no way an autobiography, the themes of betrayal and vocation are the axes through which the author searches for the decisive episode that determined his destiny as a writer. The desire to lay bare that runs through each of these texts is striking, beginning with the recognition that writing is a way of turning one's back on one's neighbor"-- Provided by publisher.