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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ozeki, Ruth. The Book of Form and Emptiness. Viking, 2021. Hardcover.

· The narrative is told using the first, second, and third-person points of view and moves back and forth in time.

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

· In “In the Beginning,” a book has to start somewhere and this book “starts here” (1).

· In “A Boy,” Benny comments that his book is talking and wonders if readers can hear it.

· He knows that all objects have voices.

· He warns that if you get upset when you hear the voices, they will “get the upper hand and take over your mind” (4).

· Things are “needy,” . . . “take up space” . . . “want attention, and they will drive you mad if you let them” (4).

· He uses analogies of an air traffic controller or the leader...

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