I know: enormous call. But I'm making it: Bastard Tongues is the best.
It's a swashbuckling, world-touring, gung-ho tale of one linguist's adventures in researching and understanding Creole languages.
So far he's been to Ghana, Guyana, places in South America and the Caribbean too numerous to mention, (England) and now, Hawaii.
He's also intrigued this little reader as to the nature and grammar of Creolese—and as to the meaning of whatever the hell it is he's about to unearth in Hawaii.
I have some inkling already, having read his later books. But I don't know the details, and this particular backstory is a fabulous one.
This book is literally unputdownable. I'm not kidding. Buy it, buy it now.
Incidentally, I'm also working up to write to him, as I'm wont to do.
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