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Section 1: "Burn" and "In a Jar"
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Talty, Morgan. Night of the Living Rez. Tin House, 2022. Ebook.
• Night of the Living Rez consists of 12 short stories set on a Penobscot (Panawahpskek) reservation in Maine.
• All of the stories are written in the first person, from the perspective of David, a young Penobscot man, who is sometimes called "Dee" by his friends.
• The stories take place at different times in David's life and are not presented in chronological order.
• "Burn," the first story in the collection, opens in winter as David walks back onto the reservation after an unsuccessful attempt to get marijuana from a Rab, a white man living off the reservation in Overtown.
• David pretended to have lost his money on the walk over, but Rab did not believe him and refused to give him...
This section contains 30,288 words (approx. 101 pages at 300 words per page) |
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