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Chapter 1 & 2

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Doshi, Avni. Burnt Sugar. The Overlook Press. 2021.1st ed.

• The first chapter begins on page 1.

• The narrative opens with the narrator saying that she has, at times, found joy in her mother’s misery.

• Her mother’s pain, to her, seemed “to be a kind of redemption” (1) for the pain she caused her daughter when she was young.

• Presently, however, her mother does not remember what she did to her daughter because she is experiencing early onset Alzheimer’s.

• In the past, the daughter would remind her mother of her cruelty “casually, over tea, and watch her face curve into a frown” (1).

• If others witness the daughter attempting to remind her mother of the things she did in the past, this elicits sympathy, which “gives rise to something acrid” (1) in the narrator.

• Her mother...

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