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Part I (pages 1 - 59)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Silber, Joan. Improvement. Counterpoint, 2017.

• The novel begins with first-person narration by Reyna.

• Reyna opens by talking about her Aunt Kiki's life and travels.

• In Chapter 1, Kiki went to Istanbul when she was in her twenties in 1970. There, she met a carpet-seller and started a relationship with him, deciding to stay in Turkey.

• Kiki wrote to her father about her new Turkish boyfriend, and she sent her father one of his rugs.

• Then Kiki's boyfriend, whose name was Osman, had some bad luck when his carpet shop took a turn for the worse.

• Osman closed his shop and moved back to help out on his family's farm in rural Turkey.

• Kiki married Osman and wrote to her family about the wedding afterwards.

• The family sent presents, including a microwave oven and an...

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