Burma Banyan: A Daughter's Odyssey

In BURMA BANYAN, A Daughter's Odyssey, the reader is invited on an intimate set of travels as the author overcomes qualms about returning to Burma after a life span. Memories of Dawnie, her child self, besiege her. These memories are not set in the peaceful, civilized atmosphere of Dehra Dun, nestled in the hills north of Delhi, the setting of her notable first memoir-Jackals' Wedding, A Memoir of a Childhood in British India-but in remote areas of northern Burma and in Mandalay, the capita...