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East

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Harjo, Joy. Crazy Brave. W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. E-book.

• An epigraph is included prior to the memoir’s opening in which the narrator begins by stating, “Once I traveled far above the earth” (8) and goes on to describe the experience.

• The part of the memoir entitled East begins on page 9, which acts as a title page with a description of the easterly direction as “the direction of beginnings” (9).

• Harjo was born in Oklahoma and her people are those of the Creek Nation.

• She recalls a distant memory of when she was riding in the backseat of her biological parents’ car, listening to jazz music.

• The jazz music opened something up inside her soul, though she did not yet have the words to express it.

• She says that she still struggles to find sufficient language...

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