Telling Me My Stories

Telling Me My Stories At age nine, Kunzang Choden was sent to a boarding school in Kalimpong. No one else in the school spoke the only language that she knew then, Bhumtangkha. Every night she would lie in bed and whisper to herself all that she had seen during the day and repeat the English words and phrases she had heard. She soothed herself to sleep by telling herself the stories she knew from home. Kunzang was orphaned young and her early life was shaped by loss and absence. Written in a ser