Wow, I had a really hard time reading this book. Not because it’s bad, which it most certainly isn’t. It’s just such a harrowing, vivid depiction of every parent’s nightmare, I had to put the book down time and again just to catch my breath before pressing on with the propulsive narrative. Said narrative comes…
Sarah Lai is a college lecturer who teaches introductory classes in screenwriting to Gen Zers who have perhaps more confidence than talent. She hates her job and is mostly contemptuous of her students, but views it as being at least better than working in her parents’ Chinese restaurant. Once upon a time, she thought she’d…
Poker Night in the exclusive gated community of Kingsland, New York comes to an explosive close when a series of frantic 911 calls comes in to dispatch. The first is by far the most pressing. The normally composed and elegant Victoria Barnes has come home to find her politician husband shot to death in his…
Amaya Bloom has problems. Once a brash young woman ready to take on the world, nowadays she’s content to run a small spice shop in California and quietly stalk her former best friend on social media. Kaavi Fonseka seems to have everything Amaya once thought was within her reach, too: a glamorous life of wealth…
When Jeanie King was a little girl, she lost her mother to a car accident that nearly claimed her own life as well. With her twin brother Jamie, she’s subsequently raised by her loving Aunt Eileen and Uncle Derek in Santa Clara, California, until her father finally comes home from his stint in the military.…
Lauren Molloy is not looking forward to returning to the Cornwall estate where she was last together with her half-sisters and their father—her Finch family as her late mother used to call them—twenty years earlier. Staying at Rock Point had been the highlight of her young life, the only place she and her older sisters…
Liza Gold is going through a lot. Having recently divorced her husband Daniel, she’s now dealing with their daughter Zoe’s seemingly never-ending mood swings, with herself the prime target for her sixteen year-old’s hostility. But at least she’s able to escape for a weekend, as Zoe is staying at Daniel’s while Liza accompanies her closest…
My Wife Is Missing Reading Group Discussion Guide Michael’s character was dualistic—he was in many ways endearing and likable, but with darker aspects as well. How did you reconcile this contradiction? When the full truth came to light, how did you feel about Michael? How did you interpret Michael and Natalie’s narration? Did you find…
The Shadow House Reading Group Discussion Guide 1.Pine Ridge, the setting of The Shadow House, is an ecovillage. Had you ever heard of or even visited a community like this before reading? Could you see yourself living in an ecovillage? Why do you think the author chose to set her story here? 2. Can you…
Chapter 1: Michael As Michael Hart rounded the corner to his hotel room, he saw a small, lifeless shape lying on the floor of the hallway. It was Teddy. Teddy’s arms were splayed open wide like the T-shape of a cross, legs straight as boards, feet pointed up at the ceiling. Still as stone, his…
