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• The epigraph of the novel is a quote by Maya Angelou that states, “I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand” (v).

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson. The Revisioners. Counterpoint, 2019. E-book.

• A section marked Ava 2017 begins on page 3.

• The section is narrated in the first person by Ava.

• In the novel’s first line, Ava remarks, “It was King who told me we forgot the photograph” (3).

• King is Ava’s 12-year-old son, who is mature for his age.

• King has been washing his own clothes since the age of eight and he is often the one who reminds his mother Ava to take out the garbage on Thursdays.

• Ava explains that the photograph to which King refers is one that her grandmother’s great-grandmother had commissioned to have taken of herself, “standing at the...

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