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. Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan writer. She was born and raised in Nepal, and has since lived in Canada and the United States. Tsering earned her MFA in writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Tsering’s debut novel WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES will be published by Bloomsbury USA and McClelland & Stewart in Canada on May 17, 2022. A lifelong activist, Tsering was the National Director of the Canadian office of Students of Free Tibet and is currently a Storytelling Advisor at Greenpeace International, where she guides and trains offices around the world in narrative strategy.
