March - 2016

[Jennifer]

A little catch up in the group - have you read The Forgotton Room getting my copy today!

[Jennifer]

The Forgotten Room has three different stories and three different main characters woven together into one big story, all taking place at the same mansion. Did you like or empathize more with one particular story line or protagonist?

[Jennifer]

Even though none of the women is an artist, art is one of the important elements that links all three stories and the characters. What kind of role does art play in your life?

[Jennifer]

The history of the Pratt mansion has been fictionalized but is based on a real mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Have you ever visited a house with the kind of history the Pratt mansion has or imagined the type of people who lived and worked in such a place?

[Jennifer]

The complicated relationship between mothers and daughters is a major aspect of the novel, with three generations of women who felt loved but estranged from their mothers. Why do you think that none of them seemed to have been close to her mother? Why do you think neither Olive nor Lucy ever just tell their daughters the truth?