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Part I (Pages 1 - 41)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Wang, Weike. Joan is Okay. Random House, New York, 2022.

• This book was written primarily in the past tense, and from the first-person perspective.

• The novel begins in the past tense.

• The narrator is Joan, an Asian-American doctor in her thirties who works at a hospital in New York City.

• Joan is a person small in stature.

• She has encountered some patients who question her credentials, and she always answers them calmly.

• Joan's father has recently died.

• He had lived in China for many years, though he had, with his wife, been an immigrant in America when Joan was born.

• Joan's father had been a workaholic and had tripped over cords at a work meeting.

• It was not clear whether he had a stroke first or if the fall caused the stroke...

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