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Booklist Review Kamdar, Mira. Kamdar, a senior fellow at New School University's World Policy Institute, examines the Indian diaspora by telling her own family's story. Grandmother Motiba was born in a feudal village in 1908 and spent her final years, in the 1990s, flying around the world to visit her children, who had settled in Europe, the U.S., and Singapore. Motiba married into a family with business interests in Burma; the family spent much of Kamdar's father's childhood there. In the U.S., where the author's father trained as an engineer, he met and wed a Danish-American student; they raised their family in the suburbs of Los Angeles, while he commuted to aerospace firms, working, among other projects, on the Apollo missions. Kamdar organizes her narrative around places: Kathiawar, the village where Motiba grew up; Rangoon, where several of her children were born; Bombay, where the family moved after World War II; and America, where the family's eldest son found a new home. A fascinating tale, appropriate for all Asian and ethnic studies collections. --Mary Carroll
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