Tamarind Mem - Tapa dura

Kamini has recently moved to Canada from India. Plunged into the past by acrimonious telephone calls and odd postcards from her mother, she tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. As she recounts the story of her mother's life and its thwarted dreams, Kamini reveals the subtle chain of desires, secrets and fears that link one generation to the next. This evocative novel explores the mutability of memory and unravels the deep ties of love and resentment that bind mothersand daughters everywhere.