A haunting first novel that recounts a Tibetan family's fifty-year journey through exile and their struggles to forge new lives of dignity, love, and hope. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch, and a most anticipated book of the year by The Millions and Ms. In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not.
