Summary

In Chapter 8, throughout their time together in Kathmandu, Lhamo and Samphel grew closer. Lhamo dreamed about their future together back at the camp. She was terrified, therefore, when she heard Shumo and Ashang making plans for her to stay with Shumo. Aware that Shumo worried she and Tenkyi would be like Ama, and desperate to return home with Samphel, Lhamo concocted a plan.

In Chapter 9, during Po Dhondup’s funeral, Lhamo comforted Samphel. That night, she pretended to be “a madwoman” to make Shumo afraid of keeping her in Kathmandu (77).

In “Dolma,” Chapter 1, “Toronto, Canada, 2012,” Lhamo’s daughter Dolma lived in Toronto with Tenkyi. When she left Kathmandu, Lhamo told her she must take her “happiness into [her] own hands” (80). Though Dolma had been in Canada for years, Toronto did not feel like home. She was making “plans to move out...