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Part I (Pages 1 - 42, "The Photograph" - "Baba")

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Elhillo, Safia. Home is Not a Country. Penguin Random House, New York, 2021.

• This book is written from the first person perspective and mostly in the present tense, unless otherwise noted. Each very short chapter is titled, and where the titles are re-used/the same, the page numbers are noted.

• The Prologue is titled "New Country." In the first section, "The Photograph," 15 year-old Nima contemplates a photo of her parents before she was born that shows them dancing.

• In "Baba," there are photos of Nima's father everywhere in the apartment she shares with her mother.

• Nima believes her father died in a car crash.

• She has never met her father.

• In "Mama," Nima contemplates a photo of her mother on her wedding day.

• It happened in a different...

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