What My Tibetan Grandmother Taught Me About Lasting Love (Catapult)
I enjoyed hearing about my grandparents’ marriage and was glad they’d been so happy, but I felt sure my grandmother’s stories, her faith in marriage, had no bearing on my life plan. Seated across from me in her silk chuba and gold-and-coral jewelry, my grandmother looked like the Tibetan incarnation of Pride and Prejudice’s Mrs. Bennet, talking about girls who’d ended up “spinsters” and girls who’d almost “missed the bus.” She didn’t understand that marriage wasn’t right for everyone. I paid polite attention—“That sounds terrible!” “What a close call!”—trying not to show that as far as I was concerned, the bus could drive right on by…