Join us for an extraordinary event, a book reading and dialogue with Tsering Yangzom Lama about her award-winning debut novel,听We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies.
奥丑别苍:听Thursday, March 2
5:30 Reception, Meet the Author | 6pm Book Reading and Dialogue
Where:听Chancellor鈥檚 Auditorium
CASE Building 4th Floor 725 Euclid Ave, CU 麻豆影院
Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate,听We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies听is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we鈥檒l go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of a family across three generations, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles.听We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, won the 2023 New Writers Award for Fiction from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. A New York Times Summer Reads pick, her novel was shortlisted for The Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The Toronto Book Awards.
鈥�We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies听showcases a writer of rare talent and uncompromising vision. In these pages that speak of exile and loss, of longing and sorrow, Tsering Lama also manages to remind us鈥搘ith startling beauty and compassion 鈥� how much can still survive. This novel is a testament to听a people鈥檚 resolve to love, no matter what. A triumph.鈥�
鈥擬aaza Mengiste, Booker Prize shortlisted author of听The Shadow King
鈥淸A] heartfelt and magical saga of a Tibetan family鈥檚 love, sacrifice, and heritage 鈥� Lama imbues this mesmerizing tale鈥攊nformed by her own family fleeing Tibet for Nepal in the 1960s鈥攚ith a rich sense of history, mysticism, and ritual.鈥澨��Publishers Weekly
Tsering Yangzom Lama听holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University where she was a TOMS Fellow, Writing Fellow, and Teaching Fellow. She earned her BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. A lifelong activist, she is a Storytelling Advisor at Greenpeace International, where she guides and trains people around the world in narrative strategy. A recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Tsering has been a resident at the Jan Michalski Foundation, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay AiR, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lillian E. Smith Center, Art Omi, Catwalk Institute, WildAcres, and Playa Summerlake.听She was selected as a 2018听Tin House听Novel Scholar.听Tsering鈥檚 writing has appeared in听The Globe and Mail,听The Malahat Review, Grain,听Kenyon Review,听Vela,听LaLit, and听Himal SouthAsian, as well as the anthologies听Old Demons New Deities: 21 Short Stories from Tibet;听House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing 麻豆影院 Nepal;听and听Brave New Play Rites.听Tsering is also a co-founder of听, a leading English-language blog among Tibetan youth in exile. Born and raised in Nepal, she currently splits her time between Vancouver, Canada and Sweden.听
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