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Front Matter and I, 1 - 6

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Serpell, Namwali. The Furrows: An Elegy. Hogarth, 2022.

· Following a dedication and epigraph, the novel begins in I, 1, with Cee relating the context of her brother’s death by drowning.

· Details of setting are presented, as are details of the lives of the Williams family.

· Cee relates her playing with her brother, glossing childhood games, and Wayne splashes into the water.

· A new section takes on an epistolary tone as Cee describes the events of Wayne’s drowning.

· Another section details Cee’s attempt to save her brother from drowning.

· Cee wakes to find herself disoriented on the beach, recovering from her exertions in confusion and without her brother.

· At length, amid Cee losing and regaining consciousness, she is found by another beachgoer and taken up.

· Cee finds herself transported home...

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