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Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Family History:
In Chapter 1, Lily uses flashback to describe her paternal grandfather's death in the middle of explaining her family history:
Robert Casey was shot down as he walked along the main street of Lincoln, New Mexico. One version of the story held that he and the man who killed him had disagreed over an eight-dollar debt. The murderer’s hanging was talked about for years in the valley because, once he’d been hanged, declared dead, cut down, and put in his pine box, people heard him moving around, so they took him out and strung him up again.
