Those Pink Mountain Nights Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and our BookBrowse Review of Those Pink Mountain Nights.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. "[Y]ou could overwork the dough too—make it stiff, without tenderness" (pg. 92). Cam is talking about pizza dough, but he also says that it is a life lesson. Describe the life lesson in your own words. How does this lesson apply to Berlin? Cam? Jessie?
2. "For being Nehiyaw, for being a woman, once more because she was Black too. Three reasons for the RCMP to look the other way" (pg. 44). Explain what Cameron is saying here in your own words. How do anti-Native bigotry, misogyny, and anti-Blackness intersect with neglect on the part of the police?

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