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Cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

by Tsering Yangzom Lama

2023

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Set in 3 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Set in

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    Tibet · China
    Tibet in 1959, where two young sisters flee their homeland after the Dalai Lama's exile and begin a multigenerational di
    ★ primary
  • Nepal · Nepal
    Tibetan refugee community where the sisters resettle after fleeing Tibet; author Tsering Lama was born in a Nepali refug
  • Kathmandu · Nepal
    Nepal (Kathmandu Valley) where the Tibetan refugee community settles in exile before some emigrate further to Canada