Meticulously researched, Dharamsala Days Dharamsala Nights transports readers to a place of suffering, laughter, sex, and violence, where almost nothing is what it appears to be. Before heading to Dharamsala in 2003 to do volunteers work with Tibetan refugees, Pauline MacDonald thought that she understood the situation: in 1959, approximately 80,000 had fled Tibet with the Dalai Lama, and since the 1980's, a new wave of refugees, the newcomers, had risked their lives to join them in what she expected to be a unified community. But upon arriving in Dharamsala, she was shocked to discover that...