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Italy, 2000 and Ann Arbor, 2002

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Popkey, Miranda. Topics of Conversation. Alfred A. Knopf Books, 2020. E-book.

• The epigraph of the novel consists of a quote from one of Sylvia Plath’s journals.

• The section of the text entitled Italy, 2000 begins on page 3.

• The unnamed narrator had come to Italy after agreeing to work for her friend Camila’s family as their nanny during the vacation.

• Camila was quick to separate herself from the unnamed narrator and her little brothers once they reached Italy, however.

• The unnamed narrator is grateful for this action in retrospect, because she is glad that Camila had not treated her like one of the help.

• The unnamed narrator was 21 in the summer of 2000.

• She was reading a lot of literature by Sylvia Plath at the time.

• She had just earned her undergraduate degree...

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