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Part I (None of That - My Parents and My Children, Pages 1 - 42)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Schweblin, Samantha. Seven Empty Houses. Riverhead Books, New York, 2022. Hardcover.

• The stories in this collection are written from a variety of viewpoints and in a variety of tenses, which will be noted at the start of each summary.

• "None of That" is written from the first person perspective and in the present tense.

• The narrator is an unnamed young girl whose mother has a habit of driving them around unfamiliar neighborhoods, observing houses and yards of strangers.

• When the story opens, the narrator and her mother are lost.

• The mother, driving, gets stuck in the mud on a lawn in front of a very large, opulent house.

• The mother tells the narrator there is no way out of this.

• A young boy...

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