Lochan Sharma was born in Nepal. His family was registered at Timai refugee camp after they were exiled from Bhutan. Lochan and his family moved to the US in 2009 and now live in Concord, New Hampshire. He is a student at Keene State College taking courses to prepare for medical school. Go Home, written with Terry Farish, is Lochan’s debut novel. Lochan’s parents, Ambika and Hari Sharma, and many other new Americans from Bhutan, worked with Terry on The Story of a Pumpkin folktale project.

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GO HOME is a story from the headlines, about immigration, torn loyalties, prejudice, and belonging, set on the New Hampshire and Maine Seacoast. It’s told in the alternating voices of Samir, a Bhutanese Nepali refugee beginning a new life in America, and Olive who just wants to make a future with her boyfriend.

“GO HOME is beautiful and powerful! Highly recommended. This is the only Nepali co-authored young adult novel I’ve ever found.”

—Margarita Engle, Newbery Award Honor winning author of The Surrender Tree and former U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate