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Taylor Greer is a tough young woman fleeing the rual poverty of her Kentucky hometown. As the result of a bizarre encounter on her drive west, she unexpectedly finds herself the guardian of a three year-old Cherokee girl.

None of Your Damn Business, a story about Yang Huanyi, the last writer of the Chinese women's secret language "Nushu", is written in shorthand, the secret language of former stenographers. Its curves and arabesques closely resemble Islamic script whose celebrated practitioners are exclusively men. This book is dedicated to all who by dint of necessity or for the sheer mischief of it, write their own secret language.

Includes chronology (p. 154-155) and index.