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Part I (Pages 1 - 37)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Krauss, Nicole. To Be a Man. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

• The stories in this book were written in a mix of tenses and points of view, each of which will be noted at the beginning the the summary for the individual story.

• The first story, "Switzerland," is written from the first person point of view and in the present tense, with frequent flashbacks written in the past tense.

• The unnamed narrator recalls meeting a young girl named Soraya almost 30 years earlier while she, Soraya, and a girl named Marie were all young teenagers attending school in Switzerland and living in a boarding house run by Mrs. Elderfield.

• The narrator's father was a doctor specializing in trauma who had moved the family to Switzerland for a special residency program there.

• Marie and Soraya...

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