Tsering Yangzom Lama
INTRODUCED BY Tsering Wangmo Dhompa author of four books, most recently Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging, published by Shambhala Publications in 2016.
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies, feels like a place I’ve lived all my life, or maybe it’s a place I’ve been waiting to live in. Lama’s novel is groundbreaking, and not just because the anglophone novel is a more recent feature of Tibetan literature. begins in 1960 with the novel’s three main protagonists, Ama and her daughters, Lhamo and Tenkyi, being thrust into a life in exile in the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet. With heartbreaking clarity the novel explores the slow recovery of self, memory, and place.
