Many survivors of the unraveling committed crimes to stay alive. To atone for murder, Zhampa heeds an old Buddhist lama's call to help heal the injustice of the Chinese genocide in Tibet. His overland journey to a remote Himalayan monastery winds through populations straining to rebuild and leads him to shards of sanity buried in that ruined world. The trouble with Wisdom is a timely tale of consequences, loss, and perseverance in service of shifting the human story.