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1. How does the narrator feel about the pain her mother is experiencing at the start of Chapter 1 and why?

The narrator sometimes finds joy in her mother's pain. She sees it as a kind of redemption for the pain the mother caused her daughter when she was young.

2. What were some of the early indications of the narrator's mother's decline with a year before the story begins?

A year before, her mother's maid found her searching the house for bed liners for her child (who is no longer a child). Six months before her mother forgot where her car was parked in her apartment car lot.

3. What does the narrator's husband, Dilip, suggest she do to try to help her mother's memory?

Dilip suggests that she leave little notes around the house about her past to try to improve her memory.

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