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Act 1

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shteyngart, Gary. Our Country Friends. Random House, 2021. Hardcover.

· In Act 1, “The Colony,” Chapter 1, work is being done at the House on the Hill to prepare it for guests.

· Masha, the mistress of the house, lowers the shades in her office to try to shut out the noise of tools and cursing.

· Natasha (who likes to be called Nat), her eight-year-old daughter is upstairs watching television.

· Alexander Borisovich Senderovsky is excited about having his friends visit from the city.

· The coronavirus has just emerged.

· Branches from two dead trees flank the driveway.

· Senderovsky cannot move them himself and the handyman refuses to move them because of his back.

· Senderovsky learned to drive three years ago at the age of 45.

· He is still not a good driver.

· He goes to pick up liquor for an actor...

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