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Part I (Round and Round - The Family)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Alameddine, Rabih. The Wrong End of the Telescope. Grove Press, New York, 2021.

• This book is written from the first person perspective and mostly in the past tense. Assume each chapter is written in the past tense unless otherwise noted.

• The first chapter, "Round and Round We Go," is written from the first person perspective and in the past tense.

• Mina Simpson, a doctor of Lebanese descent who lived in America went to Lesbos as the request of a friend, Emma, who ran an NGO helping refugees.

• At the airport in Greece, Mina thought about how this was the closest she had been to Lebanon since leaving and becoming estranged from her family many years earlier.

• At the baggage claim, the travelers watched an abandoned book circulate on...

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