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Prelude-Chapter 2

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lemmie, Asha. Fifty Words for Rain. Dutton, 2020. Hardcover.

· In the “Prelude,” Noriko Kamiza (Nori) thinks about the first real memory that she has of her early life.

· She remembers in the summer of 1948, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, pulling up to her grandparents’ house for the first time.

· She and her mother, Seiko, arrived at their estate in a faded blue car.

· The estate was called Kamiza, their family name.

· Nori had wondered if her mother had ever lived there, and she told her that she had before Nori was born.

· Nori did not ask any other questions; her mother believed it was “good for a woman to learn silence” (3).

· Nori got out of the car with her brown suitcase and a purple silk ribbon tied to the handle.

· She also carried a blue satchel...

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