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Front Matter and Prologue through Chapter 6

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Henry, Emily. People We Meet on Vacation. Ebook, Berkley, 2021.

· Following front matter, including a dedication, the prologue of the novel begins five summers before the main narrative present.

· The narrator opines on the self-fashioning vacations permit, noting the various differences from daily life vacationing allows and remarking, “You’re whoever you want to be. You can do whatever you want” (1).

· The narrator emerges from a bathroom, hesitating in part to plan and in part to retrieve a shoe lost to the stickiness of the floor.

· The surroundings—a resort town bar in the middle of a storm, crowded with locals—are noted, and the narrator approaches a man near her age, describing him in some detail.

· The narrator interrupts the man, who is reading at the bar, flirting with...

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