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Part I (Pages 1 - 49)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Murata, Sayaka. Earthlings. Grove Press, New York, 2020.

• This book was written in the past tense and from the first-person perspective.

• The narrator is Natsuki Sasamoto, who the reader meets as an adolescent.

• Natsuki lived in Japan, near Tokyo, and visited her father's large extended family for the Obon holiday in Akishina, in the mountains, every summer.

• Natsuki's grandmother owned the "mountain house" in Akishina, where Natsuki, her father, her mother, and her younger sister, Kise, all gathered with her grandparents and her father's siblings and their children.

• Natsuki's mother doted on Kisi but was verbally and sometimes physically abusive to Natsuki, constantly berating her.

• Natsuki's father seemed ineffectual and completely dominated by her mother.

• In Chapter 1, Natsuki tells the reader that her first cousin, her father's sister's son Yuu, was her...

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