Monday, August 27, 2018

The Lightkeeper's Daughters, Jean E. Pendziwol


The Lightkeeper’s Daughters

By Jean E. Pendziwol

(Tansley Reads Rating: 73%)
 
Icebreaker

 

Tell of one remarkable experience you had as a child.

 

Questions

 

1.  Why was Charlie hiding the journals? 

 

2.  On Pg. 292 Elizabeth tells Morgan “I know who I am.  I’ve known all along.”  “I am the life I lived.  I am Elizabeth.”  What do you think it means to be a twin?

                     

3.  Why did Elizabeth give her whole life to Emily?

 

4.  One of Emily’s pictures/paintings was named “Sisters in Flight”.  Why do you think it was called this?

 

5. On page 122 Elizabeth says “Emily … she was a spirit, haunted by the Lake, lingering between two-worlds, fragile and vulnerable.” So many events could have led to Emily being haunted by the Lake – which one resonates for you?

            b.) Who or what is the wolf that haunts Emily and Elizabeth?

 

6.  Morgan was sent to Boreal Retirement Home through the restorative justice program.  What was restored there?

                     

7.  What do you think made Morgan “see the light” as far as Derrick was concerned?  Why did she walk away from him?

 

8.  On page 81 Marty and Elizabeth are discussing art/paintings and Marty says “Isn’t it a shame that artistic genius hovers so near insanity.”  Elizabeth replies, “Does it require a tortured soul, Marty to capture beauty?  To see and speak truth?”  And then there is a mental dialogue she has where she says “Who decides when they’ve crossed from tortured to talent, to be embraced and immortalized?  …… Genius and insanity.  Which brings the other?”  Was she thinking of Emily?  Or Morgan?  Or of someone else?

 

9.  What importance, if any, does Lil’s native heritage play in the story’s plot?

 

10.  Why did the author begin and end the story with Arnie Richardson?

                     

11.  There were numerous sub plots/twists in the story. Was there one that surprised you and added to your enjoyment of, or intrigue with, the book, or was there one that could have been left out?

 

12. Quick round: What did you think of the book? Is there anything you want to discuss that we missed?

 

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