"I simply shrugged at her like a westerner, which did nothing to temper the bottled-up shame and simmering anger within me."A cranky woman of letters ends up investigating after a story submitted for a writing competition at a government sponsored magazine is pulled from publication by its author, and in doing so finds a story of her own.

"I simply shrugged at her like a westerner, which did nothing to temper the bottled-up shame and simmering anger within me."A cranky woman of letters ends up investigating after a story submitted for a writing competition at a government sponsored magazine is pulled from publication by its author, and in doing so finds a story of her own.