Otherland: a journey with my daughter by Maria Tumarkin

Vintage Books Australia North Sydney N.S.W.  2010

ISBN: 9781741666793

Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian born daughter, Billie, back to Russia and the Ukraine to have her child experience the country her mother came from.  Maria’s past was not just another country, but a country that no longer exists, where seismic changes have occurred in the cultural and political life of it’s people. This is the tale of a six week trip that tells the different, but connected stories of three generations of mothers and daughters, in as many lifetimes, of a bond that grows between Maria and her daughter, Billie.