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Prologue - Part 1: Perigord

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Goodman, Allegra. Isola. The Dial Press, 2025. Hardcover.

· The Prologue begins in the present and then circles back to the past.

· The chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

· Marguerite, the first-person narrator, speaks telling how she still dreams of birds and ships.

· She sees three ships in her dream and fires her musket.

· The ships are close enough to hail, and she begs them to save her.

· The ship’s commander hears her, but he orders the sailors to sail on.

· Marguerite wades into the sea, but water fills her throat.

· She cannot fly, swim, or escape her island.

· In Part 1, “Perigord,” 1531-1539, Chapter 1, Marguerite says she never knew her mother, who died the night she was born.

· Marguerite’s father died when she was three, fighting...

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