Sometimes you read and wonder how many Bangladeshi women think about the same moments from 1971 as though the bloody memories was etched in our veins? The terror and rape of over 200,000 women by the Pakistani militia in one of the largest genocides of the 20th century paints Faizullah's work, as it does for many Bangladeshi authors. Her short, terse, tense pieces address the duality between her two worlds, America's oil fields and Bangladesh's rivers, the seam running between the country, the thread holding it and ultimately the author together.