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Prologue and Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Djavadi, Negar. Disoriental. Europa Editions, 2018. Print.

• Notes: The protagonist and her sister call their many paternal uncles by their numbers, rather than their names, and “the Revolution” is used to refer to the conflict known to most as the Iranian Revolution, or as the Islamic Revolution, both of which Djavadi explicitly rejects.

• The epigraph consists of two lines from a PJ Harvey song that read “One day there’ll be a place for us/ A place called home” (7).

• The prologue begins on page 11.

• Kimiâ is the first person narrator of the novel, and she weaves together the history of Iran and her family, the Sadrs, in a purposely non-linear fashion with many hallmarks of oral storytelling embedded in the narrative structure.

• Kimiâ explains how her father, Darius, had eschewed the use...

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