Tamarind Mem
Also Published as Tamarind Woman
A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India's railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.
"A tremendous achievement - a skillful and compassionate family saga that is personal, intimate, tender, and revealing... A new and exciting talent [has] borne its first fruit on the Canadian literary scene."
--The Globe and Mail
"It is rare these days to come across a book so unselfconscious it begs to be read aloud. Tamarind Mem, the lustrous first novel of Anita Rau Badami is such a book."
--The Edmonton Journal
"Intoxicating...as jewel-bright and weightless as a silk sari shaken out of its forlds...An ambitious sweep of storytelling about family, about memory, about myth and history and the infinite interpretability of relationships."
--Ottawa Citizen
