Native Tongue: The Complete Trilogy

Anthology containing:

Native Tongue
The Judas Rose
Earthsong
Elgin’s novel  Native Tongue  is set within Chernyak House and its sister enclave Barren House, where women beyond childbearing age raise young children until they are old enough to join the simultaneously marginal and powerful patriarchal community of linguists who are trained from a young age to communicate with aliens. Doubly oppressed by their Household and the theocratic society around it, the women of Barren House invent a secret language, Láadan, that essentially creates a new reality for them within the otherwise constrained reality of their lives.