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Part I (Pages 1 - 70)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Li, Yiyun. The Book of Goose. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2022. Hardcover.

• This book was written from the first person perspective and in the past tense.

• The book does not have numbered chapters but it marks off new sections with a swirling symbol, and the section breaks will be noted.

• Agnes narrates the story.

• When it opens, she is a young teenager living in the early 1950s in a small rural village in Saint Remy, France.

• Agnes notes that the person to pay attention to in this story is Fabienne, who was Agnes's best friend.

• Now as an adult, Agnes had moved away from France and was living with her husband Earl in the U.S.A.

• Agnes's mother had just written to tell her that Fabienne had died in...

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