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Uraneck, Madeline,

How to make a life : a Tibetan refugee family and the Midwestern woman they adopted / Tibetan refugee family and the Midwestern woman they adopted Madeline Uraneck. - 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240).

Stumbling into a family -- Tenzin's story -- Migmar's story -- Becoming friends -- Four children -- Becoming American -- Tenzin's brilliant idea -- Revelations in India -- Back to Bylakuppe -- Tangled traditions -- A curriculum for saving Tibet -- Double wedding -- Search for the middle way -- Lost temples and found suitcases -- The family next door -- Tibetan name meanings.

ISBN: 9780870208560 (electronic bk.) 087020856X (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Uraneck, Madeline.
Tenzin Kalsang, 1962-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Tibetans--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.
Tibetan Americans--Social life and customs.
Women immigrants--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.
Single women--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.
Single women--Family relationships--Wisconsin--Madison.
Refugees--United States--Biography.
Immigrants--Family relationships--Wisconsin--Madison.
Tibétains--Wisconsin--Madison--Biographies.
Américains d'origine tibétaine--Mœurs et coutumes.
Immigrantes--Wisconsin--Madison--Biographies.
Femmes seules--Wisconsin--Madison--Biographies.
Femmes seules--Relations familiales--Wisconsin--Madison.
Réfugiés--États-Unis--Biographies.
Immigrants--Family relationships.
Refugees.
Single women.
Single women--Family relationships.
Tibetans.
Women immigrants.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
Wisconsin--Madison.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: F589.M19 / T53 2018eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.895/41073

Gov. Doc. Class. No.: HIS.2:H 69/2018