Leaving Mother Lake : a girlhood at the edge of the world /
by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu.
- 1st ed.
- Boston : Little, Brown, c2002.
- 290 p. : map ; 22 cm.
A young Chinese woman describes growing up in Moso country in the Himalayas, among her people's unique matrilineal society, and the conflicts with her strong-willed mother that led her to leave her mother's home to create a life of her own