Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is a professor of literature and creative writing at Villanova University. She is the author of the poetry collections My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (2011), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and Rules of the House (2002), as well as the memoir Coming Home to Tibet (2016). Her mother served as a member of parliament in the exile government for three terms.

Preface
Note on Transliteration, Titles, and Names
Timeline of Texts and Events
Introduction
1. A Government in Exile
2. Unity in Exile
3. The Group of Thirteen
4. Seven Resolutions and Supporting Documents
5. Against the Grain of History: Mutiny at the Ockenden School
6. The Convergence of Thirteen Leaders
7. A Politics of Sorrow
8. The People's Government
Conclusion: A Statement of Real Truth
Acknowledgments
List of Thirteen Founders and Settlements
Appendix: Who's Who
Notes
Bibliography
Index