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“I guess I must warn you first that my existing conditions are perplexing, to even me. Nonetheless, I'm certain of the much: My small tale is becoming your background. You won’t truly understand your occasions till you understand mine.”So starts the consideration of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russell’s powerful new book, Dreamers of your Day. And what's Neglect Shanklin’s “little tale?” Nothing significantly less than the formation of the current Middle-East in the 1921 Cairo Peace Meeting, where Winston Churchill, T.