What Is Left the Daughter Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, The Caribou and our BookBrowse Review of What Is Left the Daughter.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. What Is Left the Daughter begins with a love triangle. How many other triangular relationships appear in the book? Why, do you think?
2. How do Wyatt and Reese Mac Isaac interact with each other? Were you surprised by Wyatt's response to and relationship to her? Why do you think Howard Norman chose telephone operator as Reese's profession?
3. "Maybe I take things with the radio too personally," (p. 3) Wyatt says. Why? What do radios mean to him? How do they appear throughout the book and what is their significance?

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