In "The Fear of Large and Small Nations," feminist writer and teacher Natalee—aka Na—flees the conservative fearmongering of George W. Bush's America to reclaim her cultural roots in post-Soviet Armenia. She contends with rigid gender roles and rampant homophobia, learning the language, and centering her identity as a bisexual Armenian-American woman amid her own secret desire for love, Na is soon left with more questions than answers about where her fractured self belongs in the world.