I bought this book thinking it was the novel My Altay, by Li Juan, but it isn't - it's a collection of short stories / diary entries. They're a bit rough around the edges, but very evocative. They're about the author's, her mother's and grandmother's lives as itinerant seamstresses/shopkeepers - Han Chinese women living among nomadic or semi-nomadic Kazakhs in the far North West of #China.
Altay landscape by Fanghong, via Wikimedia Commons
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