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

Author: Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
Genre: Non-Fiction
Date Finished: Dec 8, 2009

In China there are considered to be 56 ethnic minorities. The Mosuo people are not even considered a distinct minority, lumped in with the Naxi in Yunnan and the Mongols in Sichuan. This is the story of a Mosuo woman who eventually leaves her mother's house (quite rare) and goes out in to China.

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