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Part I (Pages 1 - 66)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Egan, Jennifer. The Candy House. Scribner, New York, 2022.

• This book was written in a broad range of tenses and from different perspectives, which will be noted at the beginning of each section.

• The first section, titled "Build," begins with a section titled "The Affinity Charm," and it begins in the past tense and from the third-person perspective.

• In Chapter 1, the reader meets Bix Bouton, the rich, famous and driven creator of a huge social media company called Mandala.

• Bix was a middle-aged Black man feeling in a funk because he felt he had already had and executed his best ideas.

• His wife, Liz, and young children kept him anchored but he was driven professionally too.

• Bix was intrigued by the work of anthropologist Miranda Kline, who wrote a book called The...

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