Amma's Daughters
Marilyn Stanley
, Remi Gunn
, Valerie Hildebrand
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, Lorraine Lambie
, Maria Mclean
, Noelle Walsh
, Louise Walsh
, Wanda Brine
, Sarah Stang
, Susan Toy
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, C. Ray
, Paula Adam
, Lynn Hallson
, Bev Bellrose
, Rachel Lutz
, Vicki Bedford
, Laura Sullivan
, Jo Dowson
, Irenee R Anderson
, Karen Nordrum
, Jody Spencer
, Melinda Poth
, Patricia Johnson
, Linda MacIntyre
, Charlotte Cranston
, Nadia Cescato
, Louise Buckmaster
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, joy mills
, Kim Cappellina
, Sonja Barker
, Katherine Krige
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, Carolyn Guy
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, Marilyn Boyle
, Jaaron Collins
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Sonia Adams
, CarolMike Andryo
, Sharon Randall
, Val Ross
, Chris Lantz
, Nirakone Phromkharanourak
, Linda Leitch
, Judy McLinton
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, Catherine Kelly-Brown
, Lauraine Twilley
, Cathy Genge
, Deborah Kennedy
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, Rebecca Dixon
, Margaret McKay
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, Laurie Burns
, Lara Maynard
, Gwynn Scheltema
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, Patricia Furlotte
, Jane Mulkewich
, Kathy Baker
, Lara Riecken
, VJ Hatton
, Ellen Clarke
, Brenda Power
, Michelle Power
, Barbara McVeigh
, Caleb Nault
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, Elizabeth Ivanovich
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As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit.
