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NEW YORK WRITER SELECTED FOR BARNES & NOBLE’S PRESTIGIOUS DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PROGRAM
Mira Kamdar, Author of Motiba’s Tattoos, Among Twenty New
Writers
in Discover’s Fall Program
NEW YORK, NY– [SEPTEMBER XX, 2000] – Barnes & Noble, Inc., the nation’s largest bookseller, announced that Mira Kamdar, author of Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey into Her Indian Family’s Past, published by Public Affairs, has been selected for inclusion in the “Discover Great New Writers” fall program. Ms. Kamdar’s new book will enjoy a prominent position and signage in 551 Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country and receive an individual review in the program’s seasonal brochure.
“It
really only hit me that I'd written a book when I learned that Barnes &
Noble had selected Motiba's Tattoos
for its Discover program,” said Mira Kamdar. “Until then, I was merely working
on a manuscript. While I was writing,
I'd see Barnes & Noble's ads for Discover books and for readings by
Discover authors, and think there was no way my own book would ever appear
there. I still can't quite believe
it. Having Motiba's Tattoos selected for the Discover program has given me a
huge shot of confidence. I'm getting
right to work on my next book.”
Motiba’s Tattoos
is the story of the Indian Diaspora – the great migration of Indians from their
homeland to the New World – through one woman’s memories of her remarkable
family. Delving back into the world
into which her grandmother was born in a tiny village in Kathiawar, India, Mira
Kamdar begins a wondrous journey into the past. She follows her family’s footsteps from the feudal, rural India
of 1900 to the bustling streets of Rangoon in the 1920s and 1930s, then to
Bombay, and finally to the United States.
With rich, vivid anecdotes, she recreates the atmospheres of lost times
and places, and explores the borderless world of Indian-Americans today.
Mira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow
at the World Policy Institute at New School University. She divides her time between New York’s East
Village and Portland, Oregon.
Since 1990, “Discover Great
New Writers” has introduced book lovers to the works of new and emerging
authors. A volunteer group of Barnes
& Noble booksellers considered the works of more than 100 authors for the
fall program. Mira Kamdar is one of
twenty new writers handpicked for Discover’s program highlighting the best
fiction, short stories, memoirs and other
select literary non-fiction to appear
this fall.
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