Summary

“The Royal Flush” by Lori Pollock starts with Lindsey having a meal in a restaurant with her father to celebrate her upcoming departure to Bangladesh as a volunteer. During lunch, they discuss eating healthily and Lindsey being a flexitarian (someone who only eats meat occasionally).

Lindsey travels to Bangladesh with high hopes about making change through a sustainability project. When she arrives, she is greeted by J.P., a teaching assistant from her university. He informs her that her job is to install eco-toilets in a squatting place called the Royal Commemorative Estates. While in Bangladesh, many of Lindsey’s values and ideas are challenged. She needs to ride a rickshaw to work, although she does not approve of people being used like a...