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We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies [Tsering Yangzom Lama]

We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies [Tsering Yangzom Lama]

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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.
A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month
One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts
One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch
A Most Anticipated Book - The Millions * Ms. Magazine * Bustle

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. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, the village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint, a relic long rumoured to vanish and reappear in times of need.
     Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo’s daughter, Dolma, in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector’s vault, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community, even if it means risking her dreams.
     Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate, 
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we'll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles.

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (May 24 2022)
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0771047244