Tongues of Men and Angels

About the Book

Tongues of Men and Angels is a thrilling contemporary fantasy incorporating elements of science-fiction, horror, and mystery as well. The sudden appearance of a stranger disrupts the lives of three very different individuals.

Ruby Darling, a young African-American girl, is visited by an angel and subsequently gains the ability to speak in tongues and heal the sick.

A graduate student nicknamed Warlock intercepts an apparent extraterrestrial transmission and sets out on a quest with his new alien lover.

Miss Anne Shipley escapes Whitman Psychiatric Hospital through the aid of the magically reanimated corpse of the chief orderly.

Drawn into these interconnected events, linguistics professor Adam Wren discovers that changes in the very nature of human language itself are transforming reality and that only he has any chance of stopping this.

About the Author

Brad Pritchett received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. from Harvard University and subsequently professed for nearly a decade at schools including Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon. He has published numerous articles as well as a book in the fields of theoretical, computational, and psycho-linguistics. This is his first novel.