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Part 1: Revival Road, Chapters 1-4

- The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Harper Perennial, 2006. 978-0-00-723209-8.

- The narrator, Faye Travers, leaves the child cemetery and heads home.

- She lives with her mother, Elsie, in a house on Revival Road.

- Faye remembers a winter day when a young neighbor, Davan Eyke, accidentally crashed his father’s new car in between two trees.

- Faye and the rest of the neighborhood tried to dislodge it, but were unsuccessful.

- Faye describes another neighbor, Kurt Krahe, who is a sculptor.

- Kurt and Faye are having an affair.

- Davan recently began working for Kurt as an assistant.

- Kurt invites Faye to dinner with his daughter, Kendra, who strongly dislikes Faye.

- Faye considers the Eykes’ dog, who has been chained to the...

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