Part I (pages 1 - 43)
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gay, Roxane. Difficult Women. Grove Press, 2017.
• The book opens with the short story titled "I Will Follow You."
• The story is told in the first person, past tense from a narrator named Savvie's point of view.
• The story opens with the narrator going with her sister Carolina to find her estranged husband in Reno.
• Carolina married when she was 19. Her husband's name is Darryl.
• Darryl had wanted to move to Nevada for work, but Savvie did not want to move, and Carolina would never leave Savvie, so Carolina and Darryl were still married but lived separately.
• Savvie had a boyfriend named Spencer, which she said left a lot to be desired.
• Carolina woke Savvie up in the middle of the night to go to Nevada with her.
• Carolina and Savvie drove...
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