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1. Where is Daphne when The Golden State starts, and what is her role there?

Daphne is in her office at the Al-Ihsan Foundation for the Study of Islamic Culture at an unnamed university in San Francisco California. She is an administrator in the program, and often times the first one to the office, even though she is usually late by an hour.

2. Where are Daphne’s thoughts taking her at the beginning of the novel?

Daphne is thinking of Altavista California, a small town in the northern part of the state, in the high plains, where she owns a double-wide trailer home that was her grandparents’ and then her mother’s and she inherited it when her mother died. She is thinking about the way “Paiute smells in the early morning in the summer before the sun burns the dew off the fescue” (3).

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