Barnard first-year student Jordan Alam writes about her personal processes of writing, how her attitudes toward reading have changed since coming to college, the tension she feels between reading for pleasure and academically, and being Asian-American. Jordan also includes book reviews and a media list of books by women authors, and writes paragraphs that mimic the style of women writers such as Erica Jong, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Danticat. There are also poems entitled, "A Set of South Asian Haikus" and "Bangla Bride," and her email address. The back cover is a series of photographs of Jordan's friends posing with a life-size drawing of a monster.