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Chapter 1: The Book of the Dead

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Danticat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker. Vintage Press, 2004. Paperback version.

Chapter 1 — The Book of the Dead

• The Dew Breaker starts in Lakeland, Florida, where Ka Bienaimé says, in first-person narrative, that her father has disappeared with the sculpture she has driven from Brooklyn, where she was raised, to Florida to deliver.

• The manager of the hotel where she is staying and a police officer come to take her report, but they are not optimistic or enthusiastic about this missing person case.

• Ka says that she does not have any photos of her father, that if she tries to take his picture, he recoils like a scared child.

• Ka gives the officer details, and explains that her 65-year-old father is not senile or confused; she tells him about her father’s...

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