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"Drive My Car"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Men Without Women: Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. E-book.

• One edition of the book features on its cover a dark shadow in the shape of a man. Where his heart would be, there is a white void in the shape of a puzzle piece, indicating the book’s focus on heartbreak and loss

• "Drive My Car" begins on page 2.

• The narrator of the story presents events from Kafuku’s perspective.

• Kafuku is riding in the passenger seat of his Saab while a young woman drives.

• Kafuku is a very closed man, in part due to the loss of his wife, but also owing to his status as a famous actor.

• Kafuku muses about the way in which most female drivers are either “too aggressive” or “too timid” (2).

• The narrator makes a point of...

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