Tan to Tamarind

"This exploration of the diversity within the spectrum of brown is a lovely tribute to the color."

"Brown is beautiful in all its shades of skin color and in what children see, feel, taste, smell, and touch everywhere. . . The joyful graphic details range from the ocher-brown mehendi design on an Indian bride's hands to an adobe home on the windswept desert. In a note, Iyengar remembers hating her brown skin as a child; her book shows how lucky she feels now."

"A joyful celebration of all sorts of brown-tinted skin colors."

"Iyengar's poetry trickles down in sweetness like golden brown honey in the sunlight and makes it clear, without protest, that brown is simply beautiful."