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Prologue and Chapter 1: “The Coast”

• The Tiger’s Wife is a novel by author Tea Obreht.

• The multi-textured narrative of this complex novel interweaves three related plots which explore the nature of death, the struggle to live, and the relationships between truth, secrets, and lies.

• In the Prologue, narrator Natalia recalls her "earliest memory" of being taken to the zoo by her grandfather to visit the tiger’s cage.

• Natalia describes seeing a careless keeper being attacked by a tiger, being helped by bystanders, being let go by the tiger, and being called a fool by her grandfather.

• Chapter 1: “The Coast” opens with a description of a forty-day-long local ritual designed to keep the soul from leaving the place where it's died before the family has a chance to mourn it properly.

• Natalia’s grandmother felt robbed of the first few days of that ritual.

• Natalia reveals in...

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