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Mother Tongue
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Humanity built a machine to end misunderstanding.
It ended privacy instead.
Dr. Maya Rao helped create Mother Tongue, a revolutionary device designed to translate every language on Earth in real time. For doctors, refugees, families, diplomats, and people who have spent their lives unheard, it promises a miracle: a world where no voice is lost between words.
Then the device does something no one expected.
It stops translating what people say.
It starts translating what they mean.
A daughter hears the pain behind her father's pride. A mother in Mexico discovers the truth about her missing son. A woman in India hears the hidden expectations beneath her arranged marriage. A diplomat in Berlin watches peace talks collapse when political lies become impossible to hide. In China, an engineer uncovers the darker purpose buried inside the system: Mother Tongue was never just a translator.
It was a way to measure fear, loyalty, deception, grief, and control.
As the world fractures between those who believe truth will set humanity free and those who believe the mind should remain private, Maya is forced to confront the man who pushed the technology too far - Elias Voss, the visionary founder who believes lies are the root of all human suffering.
But Elias is not the only danger.
Governments want the machine. Corporations want to profit from it. Activists want to use it for justice. Criminals want to weaponize it. And ordinary people, desperate to know if they are loved, betrayed, safe, or doomed, begin surrendering pieces of themselves for answers they may not survive.
From San Francisco to Mexico, Delhi, Berlin, Shenzhen, Dubai, and a refugee camp in Jordan, Mother Tongue follows the global fallout of one terrifying question:
If a machine could reveal the truth beneath every word, would humanity become more honest - or more dangerous?
A gripping sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, grief, power, privacy, and the human need to be understood, Mother Tongue asks what happens when the world finally hears everything it was never meant to know.
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