Halfway through my interview with Fatima Bhutto — the high-profile Pakistani author — we had moved into expansive terrain — beyond the book and its characters. We had negotiated our way into the nucleus of her story’s origins — the North West Frontier Province. Her fiction debut — The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, is already earning rave reviews across the globe for its truthful depiction of this area. As one of the many who has completed reading it, the biggest takeaway (for me) was the insightful window into the life and times of women in that part of the world — an area often forgotten and dubbed a danger zone, where skewed reportage rarely portrays the real picture.