Reviews, MAR 03

TO INDIA AND BACK: A Book Review
"Motiba's Tattoos" by Mira Kamdar
By MEGAN BLANCHARD, assistant editor

Mira Kamdar’s intriguing family history, chronicled with a kind of mystical reverence in Motiba’s Tattoos, ranges in scope from the private turmoil of a young girl, raised on the peninsula of Kathiawar, India, to the vast opportunities of that very girl’s sons and grandsons in the American West. Fate weaves an unpredictable path for the Kamdar family, beginning in the tiny village of Gokhlana, India, and traveling all the way to Rangoon (the capital of Burma), Bombay, and finally to places as distant as America, London, Southeast Asia, and East Africa.