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1. What is the crisis that occurs in the opening of A Northern Light? How does this crisis involve the protagonist of the novel?

A young guest of the Glenmore Hotel is pulled from Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks after going boating with her lover. The young protagonist, Mattie Gokey, a waitress in the hotel, is astonished to discover that the dead woman is Grace Brown, who earlier in the day had given Mattie a bundle of letters to burn.

2. How does Mattie feel about her involvement in the crisis that occurs in the opening of the novel?

In the bustle of her daily duties, Mattie has forgotten about the letters in her apron pocket. Now she is struck by a mysterious complicity with the dead woman and an uncanny certainty that her own life will be forever changed because of the events that are unfolding.

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