Reading Guide Questions

Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers!

1. The novel concludes with the final lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost. How does this quotation inform your interpretation of the novel and its resolution?

Suggested Reading An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Embers by Sándor Márai
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

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