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Chapters 1 – 5

· NOTE: The following version of the book was used in creating this Lesson Plan: King, Lily. Writers & Lovers. Grove Press, 2020. Ebook edition.

· Additional Note: This novel is comprised of 54 untitled and unnumbered chapters. Chapter numbers are noted as per the Ebook edition, which specifies chapter numbering in the sidebar.

· Writers & Lovers is a novel about grief, creative expression, love, and reconciling the past.

· The narrative comes from the first-person perspective of protagonist Casey Peabody, a 31-year-old writer and waitress living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

· Casey begins her narrative by describing how she has a pact with herself to not think about money in the morning.

· She goes on to say she also tries not to think about sex, or Luke, or death; “There are so many things I can’t think about in order to write in the morning” (18).

· Casey describes an encounter with her landlord, Adam, whose...

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