that's what happened when you say granta. of cambridge university. it was in print for about 100 years. went out of print and into americans on the back and it's been going ever since. we have been everything from death to money the sex but we've never acknowledged within human life the matrix between women and power. it's long overdue for us to do this issue. we could have done it every year but i'm happy we did it this year because we have the occasion of publishing two of the writers on the panel and hopefully the third will be publishing in granta again. what we'll do is have a discussion for about 45 minutes and then i will open it up to questions from the audience. i'm thrilled we have the writers gathered here today that we do. i'm going to introduce them briefly and then we'll start our discussion. to my immediate right is julie otsuka was born and raised in california, a graduate of yale university. her first novel, when the emperor was divine was published in 2003. she lives in new york city and is just about to publish her new novel which