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Part I (Pages 1 - 44)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Kitamura, Katie. Intimacies. Riverhead Books, New York, 2021.

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

• In Chapter 1, the unnamed narrator has just moved from New York City to The Hague, having taken a new job on a temporary contract as a translator/interpreter at the International Criminal Court, which she often refers to as "the Court."

• The narrator moved around a lot as a child, living in New York City, Singapore, and some European locations, and she has a sense of rootlessness.

• Recently, she has realized that New York City no longer felt like home following her father's death and her mother's subsequent move to Singapore.

• The narrator, at first, spent a lot of time wandering around The Hague, and sometimes found herself lost.

• The...

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