My Mother Tongue/My Mother's Tongue -- Un Boubou -- A New Linguistic Landscape -- Cultural Borderlands -- Saints and Sinners -- The View from Here -- Insiders and Outsiders -- Religion: The Language of the Bedroom -- My Brother: My Flip Side -- English Roots -- Battle Lines -- Becoming Other -- French roots -- The Double Frame -- Inheritance -- On being not quite right -- Shfiting grandmothers -- Ruptures -- Imaginary companions -- On the wings of geese -- The gifts I keep -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Poems.