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Chapters 1-5

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ibrahim, Laila. Paper Wife: A Novel. Lake Union Publishing, 2018. EBook.

• In Chapter 1, it is March 1923, and Mei Ling and her family live in their ancestral village in Guangdong.

• Mei Ling’s family is gathered with her older sister, Jah Jeh, who is 19.

• The family used to live in Guangzhou before war, famine, and disease took their family fortune.

• The girls’ mother had not allowed them to have their feet bound, and she had insisted that they be educated as well as her sons.

• Mei Ling opens the door and ushers the matchmaker inside.

• Mah-ma pours tea, and Fuchan gives the matchmaker two coins to learn about the offer.

• The matchmaker tells them that a recent widower is in search of a new bride.

• He has a son who is two, and his wife...

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