When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East: A Novel

From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding.

"A dazzling achievement...The rhythms are more like prayer than prose, and the puzzlelike plot yields revelations." -The New York Times

Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama-a spiritual teacher who may have been born anywhere in the vast Mongolian landscape-the young monk Chuluun ...