Author Linda Murphy Marshall – Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir

Immersion, a 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner, is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey through Kirkwood native Linda Murphy Marshall’s life: from the longstanding, crippling impact of family members’ low expectations and abuse, to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages. Her love of and affinity for languages enables her to create a new life, to build a successful, decades-long career as a professional multilinguist, with assignments with the US federal government that take her on some hair-raisingly dangerous journeys, some to countries with unstable governments and even active war zones.