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Table of Contents

PREFACE ............................................................................. VIII
FORWARD ..........................................................................  XI
Life ............................................................................................. 1
Fear of Driving ............................................................................ 1 
A Reason to Learn the Language ................................................. 6
Durians, Ah Bah ......................................................................... 12 
Processed Ingredients for Traditional Dishes ............................... 18
A Daughters Virtue ..................................................................... 24 
Visitors with Messages ............................................................... 30

COMMUNITY ....................................................................... 35
Before Destruction .................................................................... 35
The Most Delicious Joy ............................................................. 40
Simple Demonstrations .............................................................. 44
The Peanut Butter Business ....................................................... 50
Large Helpings of Food ............................................................ 56
As Others See Us ..................................................................... 60
Why Not Invite Mohammed? .................................................... 65

CULTURAL APPRECIATION ............................................. 71
Naked and Nonchalant .............................................................. 71
No One's April Fool .................................................................. 76 
Deep Scratches That Won't Go away ........................................ 82
Relative Compliments ................................................................ 86
United in Love Against Hatred ................................................... 90
Concepts of Equality ................................................................. 94
One Culture's Trash is Another's Art .......................................... 98

WOMEN ................................................................................. 102
For the Joy of Dancing ............................................................... 102
Bravery in Perspective ................................................................ 106
Gloom is a State of Mind ............................................................ 110
Oppressed ................................................................................. 115
Mistress ..................................................................................... 119
A Standard of Her Own ............................................................. 124
Overcoming Social Strata ........................................................... 129
The Honor of My Profession ...................................................... 134
Priorities Up in Smoke ................................................................ 138
Smarter Than Most 142

MOTHERHOOD ..................................................................... 148
Freedom Not to Choose ............................................................. 148
Pregnant in a Foreign Land .......................................................... 153
Exposed and Ashamed ................................................................ 158
...And Help Us to Deliver ............................................................ 163 
Sometimes when Babies Come...  ................................................ 168
The Sins of the Mothers ............................................................... 173
Not Even a Name to Lose ........................................................... 178

CHILDREN .............................................................................. 183
Children of Winter ....................................................................... 183
Drowned in the Pig Cage ............................................................. 187
Last in My Class ......................................................................... 191
The Luxury of Food .................................................................... 196
The Lives of Our Daughters ......................................................... 201
It's Better She Went Away .......................................................... 205
Three Mothers ............................................................................. 210