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Front Matter through “An Incomplete History of Missoula, Montana”

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shipstead, Maggie. Great Circle: A Novel. E-book, Knopf, 2021.

· Following the dedication and epigraph, the novel begins with a brief discussion of the eponymous great circle, offering a world map to illustrate that which features prominently in the novel.

· An excerpt from a logbook, dating to 4 March 1950 in Antarctica, follows, articulating what amounts to a final statement from its author, Marian Graves.

· The novel shifts to Los Angeles in 2014, with Hadley reminiscing about learning about Marian Graves “because one of my uncle’s girlfriends liked to dump me at the library when I was a kid” (9).

· Hadley, as yet unnamed in the novel, rehearses her early encounter with Marian’s book and her early life working and living in Hollywood with her uncle, Mitch.

· Hadley also details...

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