We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

A Novel

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Pub Date 24 May 2022 | Archive Date 24 May 2022
Penguin Random House Canada | McClelland & Stewart

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2023 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner
2023 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist
2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Shortlist
2023 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes Shortlist
2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist
2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Longlist
2022 Toronto Book Awards Longlist

For readers of Homegoing and The Boat People, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile.


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.
2023 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner
2023 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist
2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Shortlist
2023 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes Shortlist
2023 Carol Shields Prize...

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