The Independent Book Publishers “gold” IPPY award for adult non-fiction was awarded to How to Make a Life. I did not attend the award ceremony in New York City, but I am proud to adhere the gold seal to as-yet unsold copies of my book. If you have a signed, …
I am now booking presentations with libraries, book clubs, and community organizations with special interest in refugees, immigrants, oral history, traditional weddings, and Tibetan American customs and holidays. When available, one of the family members from To Make a Life will accompany me. Depending on the invitation, presentations may include …
The cover of my book is lovely, but when it’s lined up next to other books on a shelf, it modestly and shyly steps back, like the Tibetan kids themselves used to do, any time I threw them onto a soccer team, or into a birthday party of peers. To …
A yellow school bus pulled up to Folklore Village, my favorite rural folk arts center, near Ridgeway, Wisconsin, and off piled 12 teens in shorts and flip flops, followed by three dozen parents and friends, bearing sizeable roasting pans to put on the potluck table, trunks, suitcases and odd-shaped cases …
