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Front Matter and Section I to “8. Reservation Mary”

· The following version of this collection was used to create this Lesson Plan: Diaz, Natalie. When My Brother Was an Aztec. Ebook, Copper Canyon P, 2012.

· Following such front matter as the dedicatory note, the epigraph, and the table of contents, the text begins with the title poem, “When My Brother Was an Aztec.”

· The narrator notes her brother living in the family’s basement and debasing their parents, remarking that though “It was awful. Unforgivable,” their parents continued to allow it (1).

· The brother’s regression is described, as is the parents’ loyalty to him.

· The brother descends into debauchery, taking from the parents and abusing them as onlookers wonder at their endurance.

· The brother sets up something like a small fiefdom, driven by drug consumption and distribution, in which he and his parents are trapped.

· Section I begins with “Abecedarian...

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