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One: Beyond the Black Stump

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Johnson, Daisy. Everything Under. Graywolfe Press, 2019. Paperback.

• Gretel and her mother Sarah spend long days at Gretel’s home, a month after Gretel found her mother again.

• Sarah is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and she only remembers her past occasionally.

• Sometimes she is overwhelmed by fear of a creature called the Bonak, that she and Gretel created long ago.

• Gretel and Sarah had a language of their own, and sometimes Sarah reverts to that.

• Sarah does not want to tell her story, but Gretel insists.

• Gretel wants to know the story of the man who was not her father and of Marcus, who used to be Margot.

• Gretel remembers how three months before, she began her search for her mother, whom she had not seen in 16 years.

• Gretel lives alone...

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