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Part I (Pages 1 - 95)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Moore, Liz. Long Bright River. Riverhead Books. New York, 2020.

• This book is written from the first person point of view, and it alternates between the past and present tenses.

• The book opens with a long list of names of all the people Mickey Fitzpatrick, the novel's narrator, has known who have died from drug overdoses.

• The novel alternates between "Then" and "Now" sections.

• Mickey is a police patrol officer in Philadelphia and is responding to a call about the body of a young woman found on the Gurney Street Tracks.

• Mickey has a new partner, Eddie Lafferty. She does not say much and is laconic by nature. Mickey thinks Eddie is phony and insincere.

• Mickey is routinely late to roll call at work and is assigned to go out on patrol...

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