Faizullah grew up in Texas and now teaches writing at a Michigan university. Her family is originally from Bangladesh. She lost a young sister at some point in their childhood and this is included in several poems of loss that are very poignant.

The title refers to villages in Northern Iraq that were completely obliterated with every male killed, leaving behind devastated females to try and survive in disaster zones. Faizullah humanizes what otherwise becomes just a statistic in a record book.

She points to various forms of injustices, from well-meaning Americans who tell her she speaks English very well even though she grew up in Texas to crude Americans who shout for dark-skinned people to 'go home' to their own country.

These are not as angry as some poems on injustice. Rather they are reflective and telling, but with brief bursts of anger inserted.