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· NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Zink, Nell. Nicotine: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2016.

· Nicotine is a satirical, contemporary, domestic fiction novel related from a third-person narrator with emphasis on the thoughts and actions of its protagonist, 23-year-old Penny Baker.

· The novel has no designated chapters and follows a linear timeline in the year 2016.

· The opening two scenes relate exposition from the past.

· In the first scene of the novel, a 13-year-old indigenous, poverty-ridden girl struggles with handling two large pigs at a dump in Cartagena, Columbia. She encounters a middle-aged American man who asks her if she wants food and invites her home with him.

· She leaves with the man.

· The next scene is set two decades later, as a 12-year-old girl named Penny smokes cigarettes in her father’s sweat lodge until he discovers her and...

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