Leaving Mother Lake

Michael Connolly
Sep 18
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Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu, Hachette Book Group, 2007.

This book by a Moso woman living near the border between Sichuan and Yunnan is the most beautiful memoir that I have ever read.

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