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This is our planned reading and discussion schedule for Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight's Children.

The novel is separated into three books, each with multiple unnumbered chapters. Book, chapter, and page numbers are shown below. Page numbers are from the Vintage edition, 2013. Parts of Book two and three are mixed together in Week Four, but hopefully that will work out okay.

Week One – July 15, 2013

Book One, The Perforated Sheet thru Tick, tock, p. 1 - 161


Week Two – July 22, 2013

Book Two, The fisherman’s pointing finger thru My tenth birthday, p. 165 - 287


Week Three – July 29, 2013

Book Two, At the Pioneer Café thru Movements performed by pepperpots, p. 288 - 408


Week Four – August 5, 2013

Book Two, Drainage and the desert thru How Saleem achieved purity, p. 409 – 478, and,
Book Three, The Buddha thru Sam and the Tiger, p. 481 - 535


Week Five – August 12, 2013

Book Three, The Shadow of the Mosque thru Abracadabra, p. 536 – 647, and,
Conclusions / the book as a whole.


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