Blue Mountains Life

MOTHER TONGUE

Blue Mountains resident Joyce Kornblatt means different things to different people in our region.

For some she’s the US ex-pat who loves Australia too much to leave, to others she’s a University professor, writing coach, psychotherapist or local Buddhist mindfulness mentor.

Blue Mountains Life magazine caught up with Joyce, who has just released her fifth novel, Mother Tongue.

BML Tell us a bit about growing up in America and how those experiences shaped your new novel.

I was born in 1944, in

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