The End of Your Life Book Club Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, The Women's Refugee Commission and our BookBrowse Review of The End of Your Life Book Club.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. Does this book have a central theme? What is it?
   


2. Why does Mary Anne always read a book’s ending first? How does this reflect her character?
   


3. Early in the book, Will writes, “I wanted to learn more about my mother’s life and the choices she’d made, so I often steered the conversation there. She had an agenda of her own, as she almost always did. It took me some time, and some help, to figure it out.” (page 6) What was Mary Anne’s agenda?
   

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