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Part One

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lerner, Ben. 10:04. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. E-book.

• The epigraph of the text discusses the ever-present chasm between appearance and reality.

• Lerner writes that the Hadissim tell a story that explains how after death, even "the clothes we wear in this world, those too we will wear there" (i) and how our babies will sleep in the same places there that they sleep now when they are here.

• He adds that in the story told by the Hadissim, it is asserted that after death, "Everything will be as it is now, just a little different" (i).

• Part One begins on page 2.

• The unnamed narrator is a 33-year-old novelist who hails from Topeka, Kansas, but he is a longtime resident of New York City.

• The unnamed narrator and his unnamed agent have just left a...

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