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A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival

A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival

Book 2023

"In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. In one evening, all those she had left behind in Ürümchi when she fled to a new life in the United States were arrested because of her. Her crime--and thus that of her family--was her award-winning investigations for Radio Free Asia on the plight of the Uyghur people. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs is Gulchehra Hoja's stunning literary memoir, ta...