Waiting at the Mountain Pass offers an intimate meditation on aging and dying among elderly exiled Tibetans living in Dharamsala, India. Through closely drawn portraits of these elders, readers walk with them through the heartaches and hopes of facing death alone and on a foreign soil.

After Work is a compelling account of Japanese retirees who move to Malaysia as “silver backpackers,” where they seek to achieve a “good” retirement. Set against contemporary inter-Asian migration, After Work offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement when the boundaries between work and life are blurred.