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Part I (Chapters 1 - 4)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Dangarembga, Tsitsi. This Mournable Body. Graywolf Press, 2018.

• This book is written in the second person present-tense, with a narrator speaking directly to the protagonist, Tambudzai Siguake, addressing her as "you."

• For clarity purposes, the chapter summaries will refer to Tambu and all other characters in the third person, present tense.

• Part 1 of the book is called Ebbing.

• In Chapter 1, Tambu is in a hostel in Harare, Zimbabwe, imagining that a fish is staring back at her from the mirror.

• Tambu does not make any effort to make friends or be social with the others who live in the hostel.

• Mrs. May, the hostel matron, wants Tambu to move out because she is older than the age restriction the hostel board members allow boarders to have.

• Mrs. May has set up an...

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