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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Study Guide

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by Joyce Carol Oates
About 61 pages (18,340 words)
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The narrator begins this story by describing a scene in which she finds herself walking through Braden's, an "excellent" department store. She is fifteen years of age and a student at Baldwin Country Day School. The year is 1968. (read more)
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