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Part I (Pages 1 - 60)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Lalami, Laila. The Other Americans. Pantheon Books, New York, 2019.

• This book is written primarily in the past tense unless otherwise noted, and from a range of first-person perspectives, with each chapter narrated by a different character. Chapter titles are the first names of each of the characters who are narrating that chapter.

• The first chapter, Nora, begins with Nora's memory of her father Driss's death in a hit-and-run car accident four years earlier.

• Nora was struck by the fact that she was having champagne and mussels with her roommate Margo in Oakland, California, celebrating Margo's professional accomplishment, at the same time of her father's death.

• Nora immediately went to her mother Maryam's house to console and comfort and grieve with her.

• Nora felt guilty that when her father had called her...

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