Wish You Were Here Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth Diseases and our BookBrowse Review of Wish You Were Here.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. "Wish you were here” is a powerful phrase in the novel. Why is it so significant?
   


2. Jack says, “…cattle aren’t people, that’s a fact” (page 4). But in what ways in the novel are cattle like people, or vice versa?
   


3. What parallels can you draw between Jack and Tom and the earlier pair of Luxton brothers?
   

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