Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

This widely acclaimed memoir transports us to the remote reaches of the Himalayas, to a place the Chinese call "the country of daughters," to the home of the Moso, a society in which women rule. Accor…

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