Author Reading "Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History" - Saturday, September 11, 2:30pm

Join local writer and activist Canyon Sam as she reads from her book Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History. She boards the controversial "Sky Train" from Beijing to Tibet and crosses the Himalayas in search of women from her oral history project decades previous in a groundbreaking memoir which explores the untold stories of Tibetan women and their critical role in Tibetan history. Foreword by the Dalai Lama.

A book sale and signing follows this event.

Read the review on Canyon Sam's book in the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/22/RVOI19TM1G.DTL

Canyon Sam will also read at the Bernal Heights Branch Library on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 6:30pm.