The second section of the book is headed ‘The Lawyers’. The protagonists are two daughters desperately looking for their mothers and struggling to understand how their lives intersect. Chloe Hooper, the author of a book about the Churchill fire, The Arsonist, describes the "warring narrative" around Sokaluk. Dear R.A., Oh, the quest for the right book club questions! Not all are easily answered. Mills, a Chicago Tribune reporter, became friendly with Harper Lee … ‘Black Saturday was such an extreme day…it’s left a national scar in our cultural imagination,’ Hooper says, when I ask her why she was drawn to write a book about these events. Until then, we will be posting discussion questions a couple of times a month. I hope eventually to post discussion questions for all of the books we've covered since I took over a couple of years ago, maybe even beyond. It also covers the problems that arise from the justifiable anger of … by James Patterson. ISBN-13: 9780307594792 Summary A family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town. In your opinion, would Junie’s occupation affect her credibility in the courtroom? The Arsonist Sue Miller, 2014 Knopf Doubleday 560 pp. 1. 2. 7th Heaven. The result, her book The Arsonist, is an enthralling and deeply fascinating story about a huge tragedy that befell a small community, one that not only conveys the horror of a fire that cremated all before it, but asks questions about guilt, remorse and responsibility. You can probably hazard a safe guess as to what at least one of the 2022 categories will be. Arson is a very curious crime to commit. Should it? About This Book Do you believe in Freud’s theory as stated in the book? It’s a great choice for book clubs — my own book club had a fascinating discussion. The questions, discussion topics, and reading list that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s discussion of The Arsonist, best-selling author Sue Miller’s gripping new novel about a small New England town that is rocked by a series of fires with mysterious origins. It will take a while. The Arsonist might be the best book I've read in 2016. It’s hard to strike a balance between questions that are open-ended and inclusive, but not so broad that certain members ( ahem!) can railroad the entire discussion into a prolonged analysis of their dating life, their blog, whether they should get bangs…. We thought it would be fun to continue that on in 2021 with a title starting with “D.”. Why do you think someone would be drawn to this crime? The story takes place in two settings, Monterey, California, in the present, and East Berlin before the fall of the wall. On The 52 Book Club’s 2020 challenge, we had three prompts for titles starting with the letters “A” “B” and “C.”. For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. Her latest novel is The Arsonist. In this section, Hooper deals with the problems of giving the suspected arsonist a fair go, an approach made more difficult by the apparent mental limitations of the suspect. The Mockingbird Next Door due 5/5 (Marja Mills) — This book has spurred quite a bit of controversy. The Arsonist is the story of the man, the community he came from, the fire he lit and the people who were killed. Subsequent novels include three Book-of- the-Month main selections: Family Pictures (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), While I Was Gone (an Oprah's Book Club selection), and The Senator's Wife.