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Chapter 1 – Chapter 5

Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Albert, Melissa. The Hazel Wood. Flatiron Books, 2019.

• The novel is told through the first-person perspective of Alice Proserpine, granddaughter of the famous novelist Althea Proserpine.

• The novel begins with a short excerpt from a 1987 Vanity Fair article entitled, “The Queen of the Hinterland”; the excerpt introduces author Althea Proserpine (born Anna Parks) and her daughter, Ella, who was being raised on fairy tales.

• Following the excerpt, Alice related while her “mother was raised on fairy tales,” she “was raised on highways” (2).

• Alice described being always on the move; once, at “six years old, [she] got into an old blue Buick with a redheaded man [she]’d never met and drove with him for fourteen hours straight” (2) before the cops apprehended him.

• The man had told Alice that he was a friend of...

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