The Washington Post, March 21st, 2002
TAMARIND WOMAN By Anita Rau Badami Algonquin. 266 pp. $23.95 This is its author's first novel and, like most such, surely is strongly autobiographical. Anita Rau Badami, like Kamini Moorthy in "Tamarind Woman," is a native of India now living in Canada, and presumably the complicated relationship between Kamini and her mother, Saroja, reflects certain realities in the author's past. But beyond that, what is especially notable about "Tamarind Woman" is its near-total absence of first-person self-absorption. Badami is a mature writer, capable of engaging the reader in a story in which little hap...
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