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Part I (Chapters 1 - 9)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Watts, Stephanie Powell. HarperCollins, 2017.

• The novel was written in the third-person, past tense from an unnamed narrator's point of view.

• The novel opened with a quote from "The Light at Hinkson Creek" by Bob Watts about reaching towards a swirling bright light.

• In Chapter 1, JJ Ferguson, who grew up poor and neglected in Pinewood, North Carolina, recently came back to Pinewood after becoming wealthy.

• The talk of the town was JJ's, or "Jay's" large new house on Brushy Mountain Road that he had just finished building.

• Pinewood, a small southern town that was once known for its furniture-making factories, has been hemorrhaging jobs for years as factory jobs move overseas or are eliminated.

• JJ has done some of his own construction work at his house, and has cut a whole new...

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