Much in the news, and in all our hearts, Muslims! Some Americans are uneasy about them. Some Americans are sweaty-terrified of them. One Presidentail candidate wants to ban all of them from immigrating to America! What are they like, really?

In this book, you'll find out about Muslims in the country of Bangladesh, just as Elaine learned while she taught them English for almost five years. In this easy-to-read story, you'll be right with her, waking at 5am as many mosques call you to prayer, sweating in rickshaws, hiking in tea plantations, closing your eyes at four lanes of traffic on two-lane highways, attending an opulent Muslim wedding, getting your hands decorated with henna, weeping over street urchins and maimed beggars.

But what about the terrorism stuff? Yes, it always undergirded life there, like the background music in a movie. Rumor had it that Pakistan was sending teachers and money to operate training centers. When the Taj Mahal Hotel in India was attacked, investigators traced the terrorists to a training center in the hills outside Chittagong, Bangladesh. But ex-pats lived life as usual.

Did her students learn English? Well, yes, enough that dozens are still chatting with her on Facebook! She misses them, and misses their hospitality and wonderful, spicy food. And they miss her, too. "You come back, ma'am? When you come back?" She tells them, "When Allah wills."

Elaine Olelo Masters.