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Sara 1) Who is the protagonist?
2) Who is the antagonist?
3) The inclusion of the murder of a young girl in the Ottawa Valley is never successfully integrat…more1) Who is the protagonist?
2) Who is the antagonist?
3) The inclusion of the murder of a young girl in the Ottawa Valley is never successfully integrated into the plot - yes, the young man accused of the murder is championed by the high school principal. But why is it there, really?
4) How much of our destiny is predetermined by our knowledge of our family history. Is it better to know or not to know? What is the role of a collective memory transferred from the one generation to another?
5) Are people with learning disabilities treated any different today, than they were in the 1930’s?
6) Were you aware of the Almonte train wreck of 1942 in eastern Ontario, before reading this book?
7) Did they ever find out how the house fire that killed Susan Graves started?
8) Did Parley rape Susan? Why was there no investigation?
9) What about the murdered girl, Ethel? Mr. Coyle was acquitted, but who killed her?
10) The book starts with a murder, is driven forward by secondary characters, and ends with a deep desire for the narrator to know her parents. Was that the point?
11) It started off with an interesting story that takes place in a small town in Saskatchewan but then all the major characters end up just outside Ottawa - is that ever possible?
12) Who among us did not suffer cruel teasing, bullying, or punishment in the classroom for sins such as failing to master math, being fat, or simply wearing the wrong clothes?
13) Is Parley truly a monster? Or is he just a misunderstood creep?(less)

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