A small-town Sri Lankan merchant family, their homes, and daily lives reveal how class, kinship, and ambition unfold after war. A Merchant’s House shows how domestic spaces shape social relations, moral decisions, and family futures in ways that reflect the pressures and possibilities of postwar life.

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.