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Part I (Chapters 1 - 6)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gilbert, Elizabeth. City of Girls. Riverhead Books, New York, 2019.

• This book is written in the past-tense from the first-person point of view of narrator Vivian Morris.

• Before Chapter One, there is a section titled New York City, April 2010.

• Vivian writes that she received a letter from "his" daughter, Angela, but the reader does not know who the man she is referring to is.

• Vivian had made Angela's wedding dress in 1971. Angela had written to tell Vivian her father had died in 1977. Now, she was writing to tell Vivian her mother had died too.

• Angela wanted to know what Vivian was to her father now that her mother had passed away.

• Vivian could not tell Angela what she was to Vivian's father, but she could set out to tell her what her...

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