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Chapters 1 - 2

• Hannah is introduced; she is at home in New Rochelle, New York on the Jewish holiday of Passover.

• Hannah does not want to go to her grandparent's home for the first Seder of Passover because she knows it will be boring.

• Hannah says that all Jewish holidays are about remembering and she is tired of remembering.

• Hannah's little brother, Aaron, complains that he is worried about reciting a religious text called the Haggadah.

• Hannah arrives at her grandparent's house; it is made known that Hannah is thirteen.

• Grandpa Will sits in front of the TV screaming at images of Nazi concentration camp victims and survivors.

• Aunt Eva is introduced; she is said to have never married and lives with her brother, Will, and his wife, Belle.

• Hannah recalls a conversation with her friend, Rosemary, that involved them trying to guess why Eve never married.

• Hanna likes...

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