For twenty-five years, Kathryn S. March has collected the life stories of the
women of a Buddhist Tamang farming community in Nepal. In If Each Comes Halfway,
she shows the process by which she and Tamang women reached across their
cultural differences to find common ground. March allows the women's own words
to paint a vivid portrait of their highland home. Because Tamang women
frequently told their stories by singing poetic songs in the middle of their
conversations with March, each book includes a CD of traditional songs not
recorded elsewhere. Striking photographs of the Tamang people accent the book's
written accounts and the CD's musical examples.