num_pages: 320
description: The daughter of an Indian father and Danish-American mother describes her journey back to a remote corner of India to trace the history of her father's family, following their odyssey from feudal India to Bombay to her father's arrival in the U.S. in the 1950s and their struggle to integrate their Indian legacy with modern American culture. Reprint.
language: English
title: Motiba's Tattoos
titlecomplete: Motiba's Tattoos
genres: History, Biography, India, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 125
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Plume